Re: IMAP server settings [WAS: Re: stupid question about setting my debian system and email]
Quoting Dave Hornford <Dave.Hornford@HornfordAssociates.com>:
> Sorry you got misdirected. The Thunderbird connection limit appears to
> be limited to Courier-IMAP as it enforces a limit in connections per IP
> as a DOS defence.
No probmlem. For some reason, I thought that courier and cyrus were more
similar in that regard.
> Have you looked through the bugs at Mozilla.org? (It can be a chore
> between duplicates and odd descriptions)
It is a very big chore :-)
I have in the past but will try to look again. This time with specific
emphasis on cyrus interaction.
> Are you also running an older version of Thunderbird? If so, you should
> upgrade to the 1.0 release.
> Thunderbird v.old & Cyrus v.very_old has a good chance of very weird
> anomalies.
I am running 1.0 from here: http://www.jwsdot.com/debian/
>
> I understand your pain on the aging infrastructure of Woody. We moved
> our email infrastructure off Debian - made the decision our servers we
> were going to stay on a 'supported/stable' platform and with the
> increased risks from viruses & spam couldn't keep email that far in the
> past. (Yes we know that Debian 'testing' is 'more stable' than many
> other distros, but it is 'testing' & I'm not signing up for an unknown
> update treadmill in production)
Thankfully, in my case it is a personal server and I am really the only user.
I can "bear the pain" until Sarge goes stable. Though I understand what
you mean about not wanting to get on an unknown update treadmill with Sarge,
backporting individual packages as necessary is always an option. I use
sbuild and maintain a couple of packages backported from experimental to
Sarge and some from Sarge to Woody. As long as you are not trying to backport
libc (what would be the point, right?), it is not very difficult.
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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