IMAP and outlook 5$!&85!!

[Darin Perusich]

does /var/log/messages say  imap/tcp server failing (looping) or 
something equivalent to this. it sounds like the client connection are 
beating up on xinetd.

this is from wu's faq, i wonder which client they are talking about.
http://www.washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/index.html#7.5

Robert Meyer wrote:
> OK, this is bad.  I have IMAP running (UW-IMAP) with a zillion
> outlook users.  Some of the outlook processes create
> as many as 10 connections to IMAP and hold them there,
> never closing them.  What the heck is going on, here?
> 
> Eventually, they start getting 'imap.domain.com' is offline
> and can't get their Email.  If I kill all of the 'imapd'
> processes, they immediately get reconnected.
> 
> I'm running this on RedHat 7.3 with UW-imap 4.5 with
> the maildir extensions.  Don't mention Cyrus 'cuz
> Outlook REALLY hates that one and the maintainer
> claims that it's outlook's problem and he ain't
> gonna fix it...
> 
> HELP!!!
> 
> Cheers!
> Bob
> 
> 
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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com