Re: Outlook Express errors against uw-imap
Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl> writes:
> Dear Deb's - I have been running mail services for a small community for
> a few years now on my Debian box. It came from 2.0 and has moved quite a
> few times both hardware and Debian revision. Currently on Woody.
>
> One problem has moved along for such a long time that I hardly notice it
> any more. It is this: If an Outlook Express client connects to my imap
> daemon, it gives error messages of this type:
>
> Header download for the 'Inbox' folder did not complete. Your IMAP
> server has closed the connection. This may occur if you have left the
> connection idle for too long. Account: 'Dices', Server: '192.168.1.2',
> Protocol: IMAP, Server Response: 'Lost mailbox lock', Port: 143,
> Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCCDD
>
> It does not seem to matter if the connection is via the local LAN or
> across the Internet. At first I assumed it had to do with my old and
> slow hardware, but I am currently running on a nice PPro with enough
> resources. Than I looked at the imap server, but that is current (Woody
> 4.7c-1).
>
> Non of the other clients that connect exhibit these errors (Netscape,
> Mozilla, Squirrelmail, Evolution). I was thinking that it might have to
> doe with Exchange specific imap functions that OE is expecting...
>
> Can anyone shed some light into this? I would be very pleased!
There are several known bugs with uw-imapd and outlook/oe:
http://bugs.debian.org/108719
http://bugs.debian.org/127790
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q274259
One of those is probably affecting you (the middle one?). I'd
recommend trying another imapd (courier-imap, etc.).
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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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