229902 - Bad error on IMAP connection limit

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[piers]

Sometimes at the moment MyRealBox has too many conncurant IMAP connections.
Thunderbird gives the following error message:

"Mail server imap.myrealbox.com is not a valid IMAP4 server."

Trying the same in Outlook Express gives the following, more useful error:

IMAP connection limit for this server reached

Configuration:
   Account: imap.myrealbox.com
   Server: imap.myrealbox.com
   Protocol: IMAP
   Port: 143
   Secure(SSL): 0
   Code: 800cccd9

"Code: 800cccd9" equates to error type IMAP_CONNECTION_REFUSED.

Comment 1

[piers]

Attachment: IMAP log file

Comment 2

[Jerome Lacoste]

See
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mailnews/imap/src/nsImapProtocol.cpp#1263

Comment 3

[Jerome Lacoste]

Forget my former comment, the following URL might be more resistant to change:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/ident?i=IMAP_SERVER_NOT_IMAP4

Something else: I was brosing the code using LXR to understand it a little bit
better. Maybe the capability_data method should include a warning for non
handled tokens?
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/ident?i=capability_data
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mailnews/imap/src/nsImapServerResponseParser.cpp#2109

Reporter, can you say more about your bug, which version of mozilla mail are you
using?

Comment 4

[piers]

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4a (20031126)

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

at one point, we'd fixed this to display the appropriate error message, but
perhaps when I changed IMAP to use blocking reads, I broke this.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Unlikely to still be an issue. If someone still sees a problem, please file a new bug report