Reproduce: 1. Open the INBOX of an account on an UW-IMAP-server. 2. Send yourself (to the account you just opened) a mail. 3. Click on the "Get Mail" icon. Actual Result: The new msg isn't displayed. After a restart of Mozilla, it is. Expected Result: The new msg is immediately displayed after the click. Additional Comments: The periodical check (Get new mail every x mins) works somemtimes.

If that helps, my root mail folder != home.

This works for me on Linux build 2000.03.01.08. Is it possible that you're not waiting long enough for the message making it to the server? Can you tail -f your IMAP log in a console window to see if the IMAP server is contacted at all?

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Zach, the msg is there, the non-Moz biff notifies me. I'll do some further testing, if it's a multiple-connection problem with the server.

Yes, it is. If Messenger 4.x doesn't run, it works. Changing SUMMARY. Is there a way to query the mailbox read-only? Of course, this depends in part on the server.

SEVERITY Enhancement. What makes the problem worse, is, that 4.x doesn't seem to always quit the connection to the server, if it is closed, but the browser still runs.

Do we have this problem only if Mozilla and the other MUA run on the same machine? I think the bug is worse than "enhancement" if it means you can't have Mozilla up and running from two locations at the same time.

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I think I have a similar problem, if I have Mozilla 1.1 running on any machine and then read my IMAP mail with "mutt" on a different machine I find that Get Mail no longer retrieves new messages that are reported by other mail tools, such as gbuffy/xbuffy or Outlook. Eventually Mozilla will recognise the new messages, seems like something times out (???), but it takes a while, > 1 hour ? If I switch my server settings to use a different/aliased name for the mail server, int-mail and newmail are the server names, the messages show up after the switch but I have to reauthenticate each time so its a bit of a pain. Our mail server is Microsoft Exchange running in W2K ( I think )

Same problem on Thunderbird 0.1 running on w2k. However I have found an easier "workaround" you just have to switch to another folder on the IMAP server ... and then switch back ... annoying ... but much better than restarting

Wow, nobody has really brought up the real problem here, which is that UW-IMAP doesn't really support multiple clients looking at the same mailbox, when using mbox format files. While mozilla/mail could possibly work around these issues better, many other mail clients behave much more poorly in the face of this. So, here's some clues for people finding this bug, using UW-IMAP: 1) If you use a different mailbox format, you can get concurrent mailbox access. "mbx", the UW "proprietary" format, will perform much better than mbox, and also permit concurrent access from multiple clients. This is what I'm currently using now, and it works pretty well. In addition to gaining concurrent access, it also performs much better. This is well-documented in the UW-IMAP docs. 2) Many (most) other IMAP daemons will also give you concurrent access. Good choices might be courier, cyrus, or dovecot http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/ That doesn't really help people who can't change any of these things, but it might help some. Anything that mozilla does here to work around this issue will really just be a poor patch to the underlying single-access issue in UW-IMAPd

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29782#c11 is probably good to relnote.

Hmm, read and weep.. This message is from 1997 (!) http://www.washington.edu/imap/listarch/1997/msg02344.html "It's been hashed out multiples what's wrong; but briefly, Messenger wants to do multiple operations on the same mailbox simultaneously. There *is* a mechanism defined in IMAP to do this. If Messenger had used that mechanism, there would not have been a problem. They observed that this mechanism wasn't commonly implemented; as a kludge, they open multiple connectioned under the assumption that all IMAP mailbox stores support shared access. It was a gamble, and it lost big time: the standard UNIX mail store does not support shared access. The upshot is that Netscape Messenger does not work well with any system that IMAP-exports ordinary UNIX mailboxes." Using IMAP has one big advantage for me: It enables me to keep my mailbox open on multiple computers (Desktop, laptop and PDA). At the moment I'm not at home but my desktop is still on and checking mail. Every time it checks mail I get disconnected which leaves me with weird behaviour in Mozilla (mail downloads broken off, empty messages that require a restart of mozilla before they are visible, 'the remote server disconnected' messages, etc). Seems like the only way to solve this is to either switch to te mbx format on the server (brrr, not fun with thousands and thousands of mails) or Mozilla/Thunderbird could support the 'official' IMAP way to open a mailbox multiple times... /me is going to find other bugs about this problem..

--> IMAP.

"It's been hashed out multiples what's wrong; but briefly, Messenger wants to do multiple operations on the same mailbox simultaneously." this was true in 1997. It has been false since 1998. There were problems detecting that the connection had been killed, but I believe those are fixed as well. Is anyone seeing this problem in Moz 1.7?

> Is anyone seeing this problem in Moz 1.7? It's still "hard" to have 2 Mozillas access the same Mailnews, it seems that only one of them can access it (even readonly) at any given time and I have to click around on folders to make the second one "take over" the connection, but it works eventually most of the time. I haven't pinpointed the problem. I usually only run one client at a time these days. Comment 11 suggests that it's UW-IMAPs fault (but shouldn't readonly access work?), and I'm thinking of switching to Cyrus.

we don't use read-only access, it's true, but readonly access doesn't help you when you want to read a message, for example, which requires write access to store the read flag. I'd like to use read only access in some situations, but it doesn't fix the underlying problem, which is that you can't have two different clients with write accesss to the same folder with the UW server...we need to make it so we handle getting kicked off connections (the famous UW kiss of death) gracefully, because we can't control what other clients do.

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is bug 68126 a duplicate? or should it be marked dependent?

Related, but different functions, i.e. at least different symptoms.

As for Gmail IMAP, proposition of bug summary is already false. I can use same Gmail IMAP account with Sm 2, Tb 2.0, Tb 3.0, Tb 3.1pre, Tb 3.2pre, Tb trunk simulteneously, unless total connection count dosn't exceed limitaion by MAXPERIP like one. Do you still see this bug?

To bug opener, do you still see problem you state in bug summary?

WADA, this bug is specifically about UW-IMAP, not Gmail.

Removing relnote keyword from bugs that are no longer significant or not needing to be mentioned in the release notes.