[Dovecot] IMAP connection timeout value?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 10:24 +0530, Sherin George wrote:
> 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.

Dovecot never disconnects IDLEing connections, because several clients
expect to be able to do that. But I think you can configure kernel to
send keepalive notifications more often (default is every 2,5h IIRC) and
then it would notice died connections sooner.