[Dovecot] Your IMAP server has closed the connection.

[Adam Jacob Muller]

On Jul 6, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Bill Milford wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dovecot-bounces+dovecot=milfordmail.com at dovecot.org  
>> [mailto:dovecot-
>> bounces+dovecot=milfordmail.com at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Dehnert  
>> James Sr
>> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 11:16 AM
>> To: Dovecot Mailing List
>> Subject: [Dovecot] Your IMAP server has closed the connection.
>>
>>
>> I'm getting a large number of ...
>>
>>    "Your IMAP server has closed the connection. This may occur if you
>> have left the connection idle for too long."
>>
>> errors.  These are confusing my clients.  Is there a way to set the
>> timeout on the dovecot server to help avoid this?
> [Bill Milford]
> I get these too.  I am using outlook 2003 in IMAP mode.  I have  
> turned on raw logs and I do not see
> anything happening in the dovecot logs.
>


Are either/both of you behind NAT? It's possible your NAT device is  
terminating the TCP session after some inactivity period.


-Adam