IMAP Idle

[Joy]

I am ok if connection is closed automatically after 30 min if client is not
responding but connection is not being closed even after 2 days.


On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 2:52 AM, Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com> wrote:

> Joy <pj.netfilter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>             We have implement imap idle in web mail built by us to have
>> push mail feature. IMAP idle working perfectly with browser notification
>> and we are happy with it but having one issue with users who close the
>> browser directly and never logout in that case there are number of idle
>> connection which are not in use and users are unable to login once IP wise
>> connection limit is reached.
>>
>> Dovecot is not closing connection which are not in use, is there any
>> setting available which can help me to resolve this issue.
>>
>
> I had much the same situation where a user signed up with a roaming
> wireless carrier that assigned a new IP to the client whenever it got
> passed from one access point to another.  Good fun when this person
> took a bus ride through the city, leaving orphaned connections in
> its wake.
>
> The IDLE disconnection timeout is hardwired in the Dovecot code
>
>         http://wiki.dovecot.org/Timeouts
>
> It's set to the RFC minimum of 30min.  You'll have to recompile Dovecot
> to lower this to a non-RFC compliant value.  I'm not sure how this this
> will affect clients, but 30min seems to be overly generous.
>
> Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>
>