[Dovecot] IMAP connection timeout value?

[Sherin George]

Hello,

I am also in  a similar position.

I have a server sitting behind hardware firewall which is configured
to timeout all connections in 30 minutes.

So, I would like to set dovecot to 30 minutes.

Could some one please let me know whether it is possible or not, at least.

Thanks in advance.

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Kind Regards,
Sherin

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Tamas Kadar <tamas.kadar at espell.com> wrote:
> (a) the server is on the internet and the clients are behind the dodgy cable
> modem.
>
> Yeah, except there are no alternatives to our ISPs at the moment, so I'd
> rather have a kind-of-solution with shorter timeouts...
>
> KT
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dovecot-bounces+tamas.kadar=espell.com at dovecot.org
> [mailto:dovecot-bounces+tamas.kadar=espell.com at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of
> William Blunn
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:02 PM
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] IMAP connection timeout value?
>
> On 19/08/2010 11:04, Tamas Kadar wrote:
>> So we're having some ISP issues lately, meaning we have to reboot our
>> cable modem like 2-3 times a day. An unfortunate side-effect I've
>> found is, once the users max out their connection limit (which I've
>> set to 10, and many people do), if we reboot the cable modem, they
>> can't log in cause their connections get 'stuck' until I `doveadm
>> kick` them, or wait for the connections to timeout which takes ???
>> minutes. Can I adjust that value to something like 30 seconds?
>
> Is it:
>
> (a) your server is on the Internet, and your clients are behind the dodgy
> cable modem, or
>
> (b) your mail server behind the dodgy cable modem and the clients are out on
> the Internet
>
> ?
>
> Either way I would suggest an improvement to your architecture would be to
> put the mail server on the same side of the dodgy cable modem as the
> majority of users.
>
> If you have a mix of office users and out-of-office users, I would say put
> the mail server on the Internet side. At least then the people struggling
> out in a hotel in the middle of nowhere won't have to fight your dodgy cable
> modem as well as their dodgy foreign internet connection.
>
> Bill
>
>