[Tickets #14885] not responding mail server renders rest of Horde unusable

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BITTE NICHT AUF DIESE NACHRICHT ANTWORTEN. NACHRICHTEN AN DIESE  
E-MAIL-ADRESSE WERDEN NICHT GELESEN.

Ticket-URL: https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/14885
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  Ticket           | 14885
  Erstellt Von     | birnbacs at gmail.com
  Zusammenfassung  | not responding mail server renders rest of Horde unusable
  Warteschlange    | IMP
  Version          | FRAMEWORK_5_2
  Typ              | Enhancement
  Status           | New
  Priorität        | 1. Low
  Milestone        |
  Patch            |
  Zuständige       |
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birnbacs at gmail.com (2019-01-09 13:52) hat geschrieben:

Should a mail server not respond to IMP, all other Horde apps are  
slowed down extremely.

In present case, IMP was configured to create an IMAP session to a  
local mail server using the Horde user credentials. The mail server  
was misconfigured and took ~30 seconds for a response. Virtually all  
page requests to Horde cause IMP to talk to the mail server first, so  
each click took hals a minute. Horde was rendered practically unusable  
and hard to administer through the console, too.

More importantly, the same problem occurs if the mail server is down.

Horde should permit the use of other apps if one app faces a problem.

A configurable timeout for IMP could help retaining functionality if  
the mail server does not respond.
An error page or a notification to an administrator would be nice -  
but probably too much to ask for.