[Dovecot] Can imap IDLE be disabled?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jan 17, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Ed Ewing wrote:

>> Are you sure disabling IDLE helps with that? AFAIK most clients  
>> keep persistent connections to server regardless of their ability  
>> to IDLE.
>>
>>
> No expert here but netstat shows persistent established connections  
> for users with blackberrys.

Ah, ok. I think blackberry is an exception here. But actually you can  
disable IDLE by changing imap_capability setting manually. Set it to  
the default CAPABILITY reply you get from Dovecot, just remove IDLE.