Thunderbird and "Login to server failed".

[Dr. Peer-Joachim Koch]

Yes, seems to work. (-n 5 -> -n 50 - no problems any more).
Has anybody tried to use -c -t (c = caching, t=timeout for cache). What 
about users
changing the password ....

Bye, Peer

On 05.10.2017 16:21, Michael Sofka wrote:
> 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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     Peer-Joachim Koch
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