Re: IMAP problems
I don't know if it is still in the bug tracking system but I got a report
like this once before from a user. The solution was to upgrade to imap
4.5. (Which is in potato but easy to recompile for slink.)
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Pontus Lidman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> At my work we have an slink box running imap 4.4-4, and some WinNT
> machines with Outlook clients. The Outlook clients connect every minute to
> the IMAP server to check for new mail. inetd starts an imapd process for
> that. For some reason, the processes never terminate; when I got to work
> this morning the server box was almost unusable because of "Too many open
> files", and there were hundreds of imapd processes on it.
>
> Is this a bug in imapd or in Micros~1 Outlook, and what can I do about it?
> Any advice would be appreciated. Please Cc: me as I'm not subscribed to
> this list.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pontus Lidman
>
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