Thunderbird and "Login to server failed".

Eugene M. Zheganin emz at norma.perm.ru
Wed Oct 4 09:09:38 EDT 2017


Hi,

I'm using cyrus-imapd (now 2.4.x) and Thunderbird. The problem is, when 
I click fast on the e-mails, I often get the "Login to server foo.bar 
failed" (when I click like one -email per 3 seconds everything is fine). 
My password is okay, so I just press "Cancel". I live with this problem 
for a really long time, and I can say the this is specific to the TB: it 
doesn't happen in Outlook. I've read a lot about this, and, besides the 
mailbox being improperly configured and failing authrization 100% of the 
time (which is not my case), there's an urban legend that TB uses by 
default  5 concurrent connections to the IMAP server (and this part is 
true), while cyrus permits less. But the thing is, even with 1 connecton 
configured in TB (in advanced settings), I still get this error when 
clicking messages fast. No errors are logged on the cyrus side, just the 
normal log stating that I was allowed to examine my mailbox.

Is there any way to get rid of these boring messages ?

Cyrus ML may not be the correct place to ask for this, but BT/Mozilla 
community just gives me futile answers like "are you sure you type your 
passwords right" and so on.


Thanks.

Eugene.



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