306374 - need 0 cached connections per server

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 245258

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Bill C. Riemers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

I have several IMAP accounts on the same server.  My wife also has several
accounts on the same server.  We both connect to the internet through the same
NAT firewall.  However, the IMAP server only supports a single socket connection
per IP address at the same time.  Both my wife and I have no problems reading
our e-mail via Outlook Express at the same time.  The reason being is that
Outlook Express does not maintain a connection, and it is unlikely we both hit
send-receive at the same time.  However, Mozilla Thunderbird maintains one or
more connects per account.  So if one of connects via Thunderbird, the other can
not read e-mail via any program.  Furthermore, Mozilla Thunderbird has problems
because it tries to have one or more connections open per account, when only one
connection total is allowed.

As a workaround, for each account I changed the maximum number of connections to
cache to 1, and I edited the prefs.js file to set the timeouts for the
connection to 1 second.  This results in enough of a time window for the other
accounts to check e-mail.  But it is dependant on the server responce times
staying consistent.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Workaround: click on the offline icon in the lower left - that will close all
your open connections immediately.

Comment 2

[Bill C. Riemers]

Not quite.  Going offline does not deal with the fact that Mozilla tries to make
one connection for each account.  I would not have any notifications of new
messages.  It also assumes I know when to go offline.  My wife normally uses the
laptop...

Bill

Comment 3

[zug_treno]

Related to bug 295640, bug 245258, bug 275624 and Core bug 237412 comment 5?

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 245258 ***

Comment 5

[Bill C. Riemers]

Bug 245258 is set to PC Linux.  This bug effects  all platforms.  I have
verified it on Windows, Linux, and MacOSX.

Comment 6

[Bill C. Riemers]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 245258 ***