<-----Original Message----- <From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] <Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:12 PM <To: Craig Jackson <Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org <Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Timeout during imapsync < <On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 14:17 -0500, Craig Jackson wrote: <> Hi, <> <> I'm using Imapsync to sync messages from an Exchange 2003 server to a <> Dovecot 1.1.11 server. The problem is that users' mailboxes are huge, <> several gigabytes with tens of thousands of messages. First Imapsync <> connects to Exchange and then to Dovecot, and then starts to <get Inbox <> info from Exchange. By the time it gets this info, the connection to <> Dovecot has timed out. I realize the RFC calls for a 30 <minute time out <> which I believe is hard coded into Dovecot. If there is a way around <> this by making a configuration change, please tell me. < <You could recompile Dovecot with smaller timeout. src/imap/common.h: < </* Disconnect client after idling this many milliseconds */ <#define CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MSECS (60*30*1000) < <
Yes, Sir, that's what I figured and it did work. Thank you.