Thunderbird and "Login to server failed".

[Michael Sofka]

This was one of the symptoms of slow authentication that we saw before I 
increased the saslauthd threads.

Mike

On 10/04/2017 09:09 AM, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:
> 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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