[Dovecot] IMAP IDLE goes to sleep

[Julian Cowley]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> i might fail ,but it looks like
> that there are problems on the clients side with idle
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Clients

Thanks, that is a useful link.  I don't see Apple Mail listed there,
but that's not to say that there aren't any issues.

> and depending to that , there are workarounds
> however i wouldnt recommand apple mail with imap
> anyway ,cause it is know for a long history of bugs with imap
> courier, cyrus , dovecot
> ( i dont know if apple has fixed them over the time, but i had a really
> bad time with some of my apple mail users in the past )

Not sure what problems you had with it.  Apple Mail hasn't been much of
a problem for me other than a few minor annoying behaviors.  Of course,
I haven't been looking at it from the server's point of view until now.
The problem I described appears to be on Dovecot's end, though.