[Imap-protocol] Exchange IMAP service dropping sessions after 9 errors

Rick Sanders <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have observed that the Exchange IMAP server will disconnect an IMAP 
session after 9 errors (such as issuing an EXAMINE command on a 
non-existent mailbox or trying to append a message with an invalid 
internaldate.

I've seen this with Exchange 2007 but the limit may exist in new 
versions as well.

That can represent a problem during migration of a user account since 
during copying thousands of messages it is unreasonable to hit the error 
limit and get blown away.

I have modified my migration tool to deal with this by counting the 
number of NO or BAD status returns, disconnecting & reconnecting, and 
then resuming from the point of error.

However, I would like to ask if anyone knows if the error threshold is 
configurable in Exchange.

Thanks,
Rick
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