71375 - mail/news eats "buffer space", causes other apps to fail connecting to server

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 71391

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

After running mozilla mail/news for half and hour or so, applications can no
longer connect to servers. Eudora reports "Out of buffer space" when checking an
email account, web browsers (ns4x, IE, mozilla, etc) report "Connection refused"
or similar, AIM says it can't contact the server, etc. Mozilla mail reports some
error, I can't remeber which. Exisiting connections are not affected, so IRC
clients continue to function, provided you don't try to changge servers or
otherwise start a new connection.

I believe this to be a problem with the biff - after so many times checking a
mail account, the errors start. 

I usually had to reboot to get rid of it, though I didn't try simply
disconnecing and reconnecting.

This is almost a blocker.

This was happening on build 2001030504, I will try to reproduce with the latest
and greatest.

Oh, and I had it checking a POP account, so it may be specific to that
component. I don't have an IMAP account to check with.

Comment 1

[Keyser Sose]

Confirmed. I am seeing this too. 2001030804.

Comment 2

[lchiang]

Interesting.  Do you see this problem if you run the same scenario with biff 
turned off?   What is your biff interval set to?   Do you see this problem if 
you leave biff running and mail/news unattended (ie. not do anything else except 
biff going off)?

Comment 3

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

I dunno. Actually, it could have been the process of sending and recieving
emails, because that's what I was doing at the time. OTOH, I couldn't repeat it
this afternoon when I tried with a newer version. I'll go back and continue use
that one and see if I can repeat it.

Comment 4

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

oh, and my biff interval was 2 minutes. 

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

This is being reported all the time.
Bug 67957, 70417, 70605. All dups of 67957 probably.

Comment 6

[Darin Fisher]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71391 ***

Comment 7

[esther]

Daniel, the dup was marked fixed on 3-11, can you confirm you are not seeing the
problem anymore with a build after 3-11.  I will verify as dup, please reopen if
you still see the problem with new build