Courier IMAP and Outlook issues

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:29:13PM -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> Typically a few people can't connect but others can, and when I check
> the imap server I find that the people having problems have several
> imapd processes running. Sometimes there are six or seven imapd 
> processes stuck for that user, and sometimes only three or four. But
> other users sometimes have two or three imapd processes, and when I ask
> them, they report that their mail is working fine. 
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what might be happening here? These users are
> all running Outlook. 

Courier limits the number of simultaneous IMAPd processes per
requesting IP. You can:

- get Outlook to use fewer parallel requests
- increase the limit

-dsr-