Re: Thunderbird/IMAP brief hangs on exit

[OSS <OSS@HornfordAssociates.com>]

Bob Alexander wrote:

> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>
> > Do you happen to know what IMAP server and version your ISP uses?  I
> > know that there are some strange interactions between the newer versions
> > of Thunderbird and the older versions of cyrus-imapd (e.g., the one in
> > Woody).
>
>
> Hola Roberto.
>
> telnetting to their IMAP gives:
>
> Trying 213.92.5.61...
> Connected to imap.inet.it.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 AUTH=LOGIN] imap.inet.it IMAP4rev1 2002.336 
> at Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:48:59 +0100 (NFT)
>
> which seems to show their server is from 2002 :(

If no one has suggested open Server Setting -> Maximum number of server 
connections to cache and set it to 1. Some IMAP servers limit the number 
of connections per IP and Thunderbird hangs unpredictably if the client 
number is higher than the server.

Dave