IMAP connection closed

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TJ

Hello all,

I use Outlook 2003. At home I use Netscape mail. When I
have Netscape running at home while I have Outlook
running at work - and they both check for IMAP mail
messages on the same mail account I get the following
message:
"Your IMAP server has closed the connection. This may
occur if you have left your connection idle too long."

Under details it says:
Lost mailbox lock.
Protocol: IMAP
Server: mail.mydomain.net
Port: 143

It does not do anything "dangerous". It is just very
annoying to get this message in Outlook all the time.
Does anyone know have to get rid of this message?

TJ
 
Does anyone know how to fix this? I have the exact same issue and it's
extremely annoying.

Thanks so much,
Brandon
 
Brandon said:
Does anyone know how to fix this? I have the exact same issue and
it's extremely annoying.
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Have you tried increasing the server timeout value on the Advanced tab of
the account properties pages?
 
I was going crazy from all the IMAP server connection errors in 2007. But, even though the connections were timing out, (or whatever) I noticed the mail was still appearing in my IMAP folders.

I was about to switch back to Outlook 2003, when I got this idea. My IMAP accounts are in a separate send/receive group than my pop3 accounts. Since mail appears in the IMAP accounts even when the connection was lost, I disabled "Schedule an automatic send/receive every X minutes" for that send/receive group, and all the problems went away.

There's no need for Outlook to constantly retrieve mail from the IMAP accounts since its a 'live' connection. The mail appears when it arrives with no need for Outlook to do automatic send/receives.

Give it a try...
 
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