Re: 1.4.0 IMAP connection leak/excessive connections

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield MindSpring com>]

On 2002.09.09 09:59 Matthias Andree wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've given balsa-1.4.0 a shot, and clicking around in the IMAP 
> folder tree, I soon caught "connection closed by (server)". 
> Looking around with lsof, I soon figured that balsa ran into 
> the per-IP connection limit that Courier-IMAP (the IMAP daemon) 
> imposes, that's (by default) 4 IMAP connections per IP. balsa 
> should close IMAP connections it no longer uses, and it should 
> recycle existing ones, not opening more than one or at most two 
> per IMAP server.

Finally, a pressing reason for fixing libmutt's profligacy with 
IMAP connections! Who wants to take it on?