[TriLUG] FC2, Dovecot, Squirrelmail = Crash

[Jason Tower]

i ran dovecot for a while on my rh9 server, and it would crash from time 
to time when i accessed my imap folders with kmail.  ever since i 
switched to courier-imap (on mandrake) it has been flawless.

however, i have a client whom i recently (well, eight months ago) set up 
with makdrake, courier, and squirrelmail.  during the initial 
migration, one of the users had a couple of large mailboxes (thousands 
of messages) that would cause squirrelmail to return an out of memory 
error, even though they worked fine with a standard imap client.  my 
guess is that squirrelmail is trying to sort all of the messages by 
name or date or whatever, and hitting a memory wall with apache or php.  
not being a web guru, that's the best diagnosis i could come up with, 
and it sounds like what your friend is experiencing too.

jason

On Sunday 27 June 2004 12:32, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> Okay, I've looked into this very little - so take the following with
> a grain of salt.  I have a friend who's FC2 box runs Dovecot for
> IMAP, with Squirrelmail for webmail on apache (of course), on FC2. 
> He's experiencing crashes when listing large folders in Squirrelmail
> - sometimes apache, sometimes the entire box.  I'm still questioning
> him for more details, but I thought I'd throw this out to the list
> and see if there is a known issue, misconfiguration, incompatibility,
> or anything else that someone's run across with this combination
> before.
>
> Aaron S. Joyner