238915 - Unable to use multiple clients on same account at same time

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 239802

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[John L. Villalovos]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

Using IMAP (via SSL if important).  Using Mozilla 1.7b (was NOT occuring with
Mozilla 1.7a).

If I leave my home computer running Mozilla Mail and then go to work and try to
access my email via IMAP I am unable to get a lock on my mailbox.  I am unable
to delete mail messages or even change their state from unread to read.

Here is output from my /var/log/maillog
Mar 21 18:30:00 webhost imapd[28770]: Authenticated user=john host=sodarock.com
[216.99.200.244]
Mar 21 18:30:00 webhost imapd[28771]: imaps SSL service init from 216.99.200.244
Mar 21 18:30:00 webhost imapd[12173]: Killed (lost mailbox lock) user=john
host=sodarock.com [216.99.200.244]
Mar 21 18:30:01 webhost imapd[28771]: Authenticated user=john host=sodarock.com
[216.99.200.244]
Mar 21 18:30:08 webhost imapd[28783]: imaps SSL service init from 216.99.200.244
Mar 21 18:30:08 webhost imapd[28783]: Authenticated user=john host=sodarock.com
[216.99.200.244]
Mar 21 18:33:57 webhost imapd[28784]: imaps SSL service init from 216.99.200.244
Mar 21 18:33:57 webhost imapd[28784]: Authenticated user=john host=sodarock.com
[216.99.200.244]
Mar 21 18:33:57 webhost imapd[28770]: Killed (lost mailbox lock) user=john
host=sodarock.com [216.99.200.244]

I am using the imap-2002d-3 server that comes with Fedora Core 1.  The page for
the IMAP server is: http://www.washington.edu/imap/



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have Mozilla Mail running and attached
2. Try to use another client to read or delete emails
3. Unable to delete emails or change state from unread to read.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

this is a limitation of your server...

Comment 2

[John L. Villalovos]

Any reason this bug appeared in 1.7beta and not before that?  In 1.7alpha I did
not have any issues.

Just curious.  Since the server hasn't changed.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

oh, yeah - probably because we had to back out a fix to the shutdown code
because it sometimes causes hangs shutting down...so my mistake, it's really a
problem with the client code (most servers handle the way we shutdown fine, but
the UW server does not)

Comment 4

[John L. Villalovos]

Cool :)  Thanks for looking in to it.

Comment 5

[Blu3]

just for reference, the current mozilla simply does NOT work with itself on a UW
imapd.  both mozillas have to constantly be taken offline/online just to get a
halfway fresh reading of what emails are in your mailboxes.  updates such as msg
deletion, msgs marked read, etc, don't happen.

mozilla used to work great like this.  i could leave several machines up and
running with my mail client on each one and they'd all be happy.  now i have to
go offline with all of them and only be online with the one i want to use at
that particular desk i'm sitting at for the minute.  really defeats the purpose.

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

Does your UW server support the IDLE command, and what happens if you set
Mozilla not to use the IDLE command? There's  a UI to turn off IDLE use in
Mozilla, in the advanced imap server settings, if you get the most recent build.

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

dup of bug 239802, which is now fixed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 239802 ***

Comment 8

[John Villalovos]

Just tried the Mozilla 1.7RC1 and everything is working great now :)