245513 - Thunderbird leaves uw-imapd processes spinning (possible deadlock?)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Robert Schmidt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 0.6 (20040502)

I use an XP laptop with Thunderbird 0.6 to access uw-imap on a server (over 
WLAN).  uw-imap is provided by the latest cygwin install (as of June 2nd 2004).
This works great, usually a long while (say 1-3 hours).  It doesn't seem to 
matter how many folders I open or mails I read.  Suddenly TB stops loading 
data from the server (UI responds, but throbber throbs, nothing new loads).
On the server, I then notice that several uw-imapd processes are running at 
100%.  Every 10 minutes (new mail poll), a new uw-imapd hangs this way, and my 
server slowly dies.
I can kill all of these processes, and TB starts responding properly again.
I've used several other clients with uw-imapd, without problems (Eudora, 
Outlook, Bynari Insight Connector (to sync all my Outlook data through IMAP)).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Configure TB to access (cygwin) uw-imap on server
2.Leave running, use normally (occasionally read mails, open folders, ...)

Actual Results:  
TB fails to load any data from uw-imap.
An increasing number of uw-imapd processes choke the server (one seems to be 
added for every access).

Expected Results:  
TB should have been able to work with uw-imap indefinitely.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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