courier-imapd disconnecting and leaving stale connections

[Jason Munro]

On 9:18:41 am 05/27/05 Jack <quiet_celt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ok, this is more an annoyance than anything else. I
> suspect I have something missing in my configuration
> for courier. Frequently while I have an imap session
> up
> it will disconnect at the server and leave the
> connection
> process up on the server. This prevents my email
> client
> from downloading anymore messages until I either close
> the email client, and the browser if it is Mozilla/
> Thunderbird. Or by kill -SIGHUP of the offending
> process. I'm forcing imap over a secure connection and
> using a 9xx port. This doesn't happen with local
> connection that squirrelmail uses. Anyone experience
> similar behavior? Google was no help, or I didn't ask
> the right question.

Not sure why this is happening but the reason squirrelmail does not exhibit
this behavior is because squirrelmail logs in then out again on every page
load. There is no persistant IMAP session.

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