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Re: Netscape, IMAP and compact folder



Tobias Geijersson wrote:
> 
> Debian Ghost wrote:
> >
> > On occasion, when using IMAP, my netscape will fail to compact the folder
> > if I've been moving some mail from one place or another. I will have to
> > restart netscape and move the mail again and then 'compact folder' is this
> > a bug with netscape (4.73) or a bug with IMAP on the server? I am
> > responsible for IMAP and this local machine, so either way it is my
> > problem to fix :)
> >
> > Anyone have any experience with similar problem?
> 
> Yes, I've got the same problem and if you look att which processes that
> are running on the server then you will probably se that there are two
> imap processes, if you kill -TERM the older one it will work again!
> 
> The problem is much bigger with Outlook who almost always trigger
> several imap-processes.
> 
> I'm using imap 4.5-0slink3 and have tried to uppgrade 4.7c-1 but it
> didn't help.
> 
FWIW, Cyrus doesn't seem to have these sorts of problems.  I've often
seen minor Netscape Messenger or Outlook problems, but nothing that
can't be addressed by fiddling with the client (reopening folders,
typically), never the IMAP server processes.



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