We upgraded to 6.0 last week and really like it, however, there are some persistent error messages and worries I have.
This particular note is regarding the IMAP Server’s inability to close sessions, but accumulate them until, I assume it runs out of server memory. Poking around, I found one remote user had 10+ IMAP Server Sessions open. Each seemed to be attached to a different IP address which makes sense, since he is using dial-up. The problem is that this was over several days and the IMAP time-out is set to 30 minutes. I proceeded to change the time-out to 15 minutes and set the maximum number of sessions from “blank” to 4. The immediate result after a couple of accesses was the this user and I were locked out of the system. So I set the sessions number back to “blank” and it is back to accumulating open sessions again.
Has anyone run into this peculiar behavior and suffered a server crash as a result. Is there some arcane switch buried somewhere that I have overlooked.
I may have found a solution to this. I put a timeout parameter in the notes.ini file. This seems to force the issue rather that waiting for an apparently crippled default timeout.
Speculate the problem lies in your Dial-up (RAS or XPC) connection. These connections do not time out, thus it continues connecting to the Domino server and keeps the session open.
Does the session cease when the user logs out?
I’ve tried this on my servers with no problem over a LAN.
Interesting comment about dial-up. I will review the settings there, however 99.9% of remote server interaction is via the Internet, not through server dial-up (RAS not used, XPC is by another user, but not causing the open sessions).
The problem IS that the sessions DO NOT cease after log-out of disconnection.
The IMAP process…over the weekend…has started to behave itself for some unknown reason, however, it doesn’t seem to show the process when an IMAP client hooks up. Will advise further developments.