[Dovecot] Your IMAP server has closed the connection.

[Bill Milford]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dovecot-bounces+dovecot=milfordmail.com at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-
> bounces+dovecot=milfordmail.com at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Adam Jacob Muller
> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 1:12 PM
> To: Bill Milford
> Cc: Dovecot Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Your IMAP server has closed the connection.
> 
> 
> 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
My server and my desktop are on the same /24 subnet -- no NAT involved.  It only happens with Outlook.
Thunderbird works fine.