[Dovecot] customizable idle login timeouts?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Jan 3 22:07:20 UTC 2007


On 23.12.2006, at 4.08, Cassidy B. Larson wrote:

> We're in the process of migrating from mbox over to maildir.
> I'm running into a problem with the proxy and timeouts. Appears the  
> idle
> timeout is set to 60 seconds. This is a bit too low for some of our  
> large mbox files :(
>
> Any plans on adding the:
> #define CLIENT_LOGIN_IDLE_TIMEOUT 60
> #define AUTH_REQUEST_TIMEOUT
>
> to the .conf file to be tunable on the fly?
>
> I ended up just patching the couple of files in question, but it'd  
> be nice..

I grew these to 3 minutes for other reasons already. But the mbox  
size shouldn't matter here. The OK reply to login command should come  
before the mailbox is even opened, and after login those values don't  
matter anymore. So what are you doing in your backend servers? :)
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