11 Oct
2004
11 Oct
'04
12:27 p.m.
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Timo Sirainen wrote:
Oh, you wanted just details. When this is enabled: If after 29 minutes of IDLEing client hasn't sent anything, Dovecot behaves as if a new mail arrived and announces it to client. Usually clients react to this by stopping the IDLE and fetching information of the new mail. So, once clients stop IDLE, Dovecot says immediately that the new mail was just expunged and clients go back IDLEing. So this just "pings" the client into doing something to check if it's still there.
Why is this an option? Is there a reason why someone would want to disable this workaround?
Andreas
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