[Dovecot] 2.0.beta4 "OK Still here" not flushed?

[Daniel I. Applebaum]

Hello, everybody!

I've noticed that my installation of K-9 Mail on Android has been 
consuming a lot of battery power recently.  I've been running it 
connecting to 2.0.beta3 for the past few weeks and just upgraded to 
2.0.beta4 while debugging this issue.  There is a conspicuous lack of 
"OK Still here" messages in my IDLE connections.  The lack of these "OK 
Still here" messages means that the idling connections get dropped very 
frequently, which causes K-9 Mail to expend much more effort than just 
receiving the periodic "OK Still here" and going back to sleep.

The "OK Still here" messages sometimes arrive, however, just before an 
untagged FETCH, however.

I do not know anything about dovecot internals, but I suspected that the 
"OK Still here" messages were not being flushed, so I modified line 270 
of src/imap/imap-client.c to be:
	if (1 || o_stream_get_buffer_used_size(client->output) >=

which I am sure is the wrong solution, since it forces a flush for every 
output line and would be quite inefficient.  However, with that 
modification, the "OK Still here" messages appear reliably.  Hopefully, 
there is a way to specifically flush just the "OK Still here" messages 
appropriately.

I'd be happy to test any real solutions to this issue.

Sincerely,
Dan.