[colug-432] Android and IMAP weirdness

[Angelo McComis]

Steve - how many messages are in your inbox?

Thinking maybe your phone is opening the connection through the router
but not waiting long enough for the reply (because it's a lengthy
server side operation) before either the router stops the connection
or the client gives up/times out.

Things I might look for:  timeout settings for android's IMAP
client... Archive off some messages out of your inbox... Check your
router port forwarding setup: is it a port trigger or port forward?
Any possible config that would cause it to timeout there?


> On Feb 23, 2014, at 5:06 PM, Stephen Potter <spp at unixsa.net> wrote:
>
>> On 2/23/2014 3:56 PM, Rick Hornsby wrote:
>> Is your phone the only client with an issue?  It seems odd that everything except your inbox works - since that is layer 7, which your router should simply pass through.
>
> My phone is the only client that has an issue, as far as I can tell.  My
> wife's phone works fine, and I just checked that other folders work.
>
>> Does your phone's IMAP client behave properly on your LAN?
>
> Ah, so maybe the router isn't the issue...  I just set up the client to
> attach to the internal IP address, and it does the same thing.
>
>> On a related note, I definitely concur with the other suggestion to switch to imaps for security reasons.
>
> I always try for the simplest solutions that work for me.  So far, I
> haven't had any issues with using straight IMAP and haven't thought to
> use IMAPS.
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