[Dovecot] Dovecot-imap, tls, gnus

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 12:24 +0100, Richard G Riley wrote:
> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 17:21 +0100, Richard G Riley wrote:
> >> I have a connection to my dovecot server from gnus:
> >> 
> >> ,----
> >> | (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
> >> | 	     '(nnimap "hermes"
> >> | 		      (nnimap-stream starttls)
> >> | 		      (nnimap-address "hermes")
> >> | 		      (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo")))
> >> `----
> >> 
> >> If I enter a group and read my mail then wander off and come back after
> >> a few minutes I can not navigate out of the group because my nnimap
> >> session has ended. What config parameter do I need to change in Dovecot
> >> to keep it open for the life of the client? (I am assuming its a dovecot
> >> issue here since it didn't happen with courier-imap).

Well, normally Dovecot disconnects connections after they haven't sent
anything for 30 minutes. This isn't configurable. And usually clients do
something at least once every 30 minutes, so they should never get
disconnected.

Check from Dovecot's logs what the disconnection reason is, or if there
are any error messages.

> > What Dovecot version?
> 
> Debian etch incumbent : 1.0.rc15

It's possible this has already been fixed. rc15 is over a year old
already.
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