IMAP Issues

[Peter Johnson <lists codewizards net>]

I am experiencing the following problem with Balsa (1.1.7) and IMAP
(Courier-IMAP & Maildir).

When I first log in I often experience "Unable to open mailbox" but if I
rescan the IMAP folders then this issue will go away for some / most of the
folders. I also don't believe that it is checking the IMAP inbox properly. 

I have been using a web based mailer - SquirrelMail (www.squirrelmail.org)
and as a side note, I strongly recommend it. I include a portion of my mail
log file. The 127 address is the webmail client and the 192 address is
balsa, as can be seen Balsa is not sending a "LOGOUT" at any stage. I think
that this might be causing the problems.  

I have set Balsa to check mail every 2mins and also to close unused
mailboxes after 1 minute.


Aug 28 21:17:16 sooty imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Aug 28 21:17:16 sooty imapd: LOGIN, user=peter, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Aug 28 21:17:16 sooty imapd: LOGOUT, user=peter, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1],
headers=0, body=0
Aug 28 21:17:18 sooty imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Aug 28 21:17:18 sooty imapd: LOGIN, user=peter, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Aug 28 21:17:19 sooty imapd: LOGOUT, user=peter, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1],
headers=0, body=0
Aug 28 21:17:28 sooty imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Aug 28 21:17:28 sooty imapd: LOGIN, user=peter, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Aug 28 21:17:29 sooty imapd: LOGOUT, user=peter, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1],
headers=0, body=0
Aug 28 21:17:51 sooty imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.6]
Aug 28 21:17:51 sooty imapd: LOGIN, user=peter, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.6]
Aug 28 21:17:52 sooty imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.6]
Aug 28 21:17:52 sooty imapd: LOGIN, user=peter, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.6]
Aug 28 21:17:52 sooty imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.6]
Aug 28 21:17:52 sooty imapd: LOGIN, user=peter, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.6]
Aug 28 21:17:53 sooty imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.6]
Aug 28 21:17:53 sooty imapd: LOGIN, user=peter, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.6]

I do sometime get an error message saying 
"Disconnected due to inactivity

CLOSE failed"

This shows up in the logs as:
Aug 28 21:50:51 sooty imapd: DISCONNECTED, user=peter,
ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.6], headers=184, body=2707
Aug 28 21:51:21 sooty imapd: DISCONNECTED, user=peter,
ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.6], headers=14873, body=7287

If there is a setting that I have missed, please do let me know. If there
are any further details desired then please do let me know.

Regards,
Peter Johnson