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Mail is killing the processes on my server with IMAP

Why is mail over running my server with IMAP processes?

I've had to start killing the process like crazy cause it was causing other services on my website to fail.

i contact support for Hostgator and they asked if i was using Mac Mail. i said yes, and he said, yeah mac mail does that. what's that suppose to mean?

it really hasn't happened in the past, why now?

 Unibody MBP 15" 2.4Ghz 4GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.5.6), iPhone 3G

Posted on Mar 12, 2009 6:31 PM

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tsaw

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Jan 25, 2010 2:03 PM in response to BrianH

Has anyone found a fix for this. I too use hostgator and have been very pleased with them. The apple mail program leaves the IMAP processes open and it causes my limit of running processes to overflow rather quickly.

Host Gator support suggested upgrading to a virtual or dedicated server to get around the process limits, but stated that the problem appeared to be with apple mail leaving these connections open. They said that they haven't had any issues with other mail programs - only apple mail.

Any thoughts? This is taking my sites down - getting a 500 internal error and loosing access to my sites when my email program is online. Once I shut down apple mail - my sites come back online.

Thanks!

Tim

Jan 30, 2010 7:42 PM in response to tsaw

I am having the same issue with Hostgator! Wordpress will not run if Mail.app is open

tsaw

Level 1

16 points

Feb 16, 2010 2:26 PM in response to tjennings

I am seeing emails from 2004 on this issue with apple mail and host gator... Does anyone know if there is a fix for this.

I too am seeing this very same issue with IMAP and apple mail.

Thanks!

Tim

Mail is killing the processes on my server with IMAP