Outlook Express and IMAP connections - thousands of them?

[Anthony Tibbs]

Hi everyone,

I've been using Outlook Express with Cyrus now for several years (since 
2002), have set it up on many different computers, and have never run into 
this before.  I have one user who is also using OE, and their OE is doing 
something very strange - it's disconnecting and reconnecting for every 
folder it checks, leading to (litreally) thousands of lines a day indicating 
a new login:

Dec 14 12:02:25 polaris imap[26772]: login: clientHost [69.xxx.xxx.xxx] 
<user>@tibbs.ca plaintext User logged in
Dec 14 12:02:25 polaris imap[26170]: login: clientHost [69.xxx.xxx.xxx] 
<user>@tibbs.ca plaintext User logged in
Dec 14 12:02:26 polaris imap[26170]: login: clientHost [69.xxx.xxx.xxx] 
<user>@tibbs.ca plaintext User logged in
Dec 14 12:02:26 polaris imap[26772]: login: clientHost [69.xxx.xxx.xxx] 
<user>@tibbs.ca plaintext User logged in
Dec 14 12:02:27 polaris imap[26772]: login: clientHost [69.xxx.xxx.xxx] 
<user>@tibbs.ca plaintext User logged in

... and so on.  Looking at the telemetry logs, there doesn't seem to be 
anything "unusual," or any errors or anything (see below).

Is there a setting somewhre that I don't know aobut that would affect this?


---------- <user>@tibbs.ca Thu Dec 14 12:07:03 2006
>1166116023>he0o OK User logged in
<1166116023<dmip IDLE
>1166116023>+ idling
<1166116023<DONE
>1166116023>dmip OK Completed
<1166116023<ld73 SELECT "INBOX.Guidedog-Friends"
>1166116023>* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*)]
* 0 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1164770668]
* OK [UIDNEXT 1]
ld73 OK [READ-WRITE] Completed
<1166116023<mqu8 IDLE
>1166116023>+ idling
<1166116023<DONE
>1166116023>mqu8 OK Completed
<1166116024<kd8l NOOP

>1166116024>kd8l OK Completed
<1166116024<dyyb IDLE
>1166116024>+ idling

---------- <user>@tibbs.ca Thu Dec 14 12:07:04 2006
>1166116024>136z OK User logged in
<1166116024<nh4o IDLE
>1166116024>+ idling
<1166116024<DONE
>1166116024>nh4o OK Completed
<1166116024<lwev SELECT "INBOX.LJ"
>1166116024>* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*)]
* 10 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1164770606]
* OK [UIDNEXT 16]
lwev OK [READ-WRITE] Completed
<1166116024<xj4l IDLE
>1166116024>+ idling

---------- <user>@tibbs.ca Thu Dec 14 12:07:05 2006
>1166116025>gvti OK User logged in
<1166116025<8fw3 IDLE
>1166116025>+ idling
.. and so on.