Dan White wrote: > On 21/10/10 16:43 +0200, JC Putter wrote: > >we are running cyrus-imapd 2.3 on centos 5.5 > > > >we are getting complains from users getting error messages saying Mailbox > >locked by POP Server, i understand that pop3 server can handle only 1 > >concurrent connection, can cyrus be configured to support more connection? > > We're getting a lot more of these complaints as well as our ISP customers > start configuring email access on their phones and handhelds. > > The solution for us has been to encourage customers to reconfigure both > devices (PC and phone) to use IMAP. > > The POP3 standard (RFC 1939) requires each connection to obtain an > exclusive lock on a maildrop before continuing operations. It lacks the > proper semantics to handle simultaneous access to a mailbox. Hi there, I went ahead and put this protocol limitation in my work-in-progress Deployment Guide document ;-) Kind regards, -- Jeroen van Meeuwen Senior Engineer, Kolab Systems AG e: vanmeeuwen@xxxxxxxxxxxx t: +316 42 801 403 w: http://www.kolabsys.com pgp: 9342 BF08 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
