[Dovecot] Disconnected for inactivity time.

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at curecanti.org
Wed Oct 17 22:47:43 EEST 2012


Quoting Robert JR <roundcube222 at alaadin.org>:

> After 10 mins of unactivity of pop3 , dovecot disconnect the user  
> (-ERR Disconnected for inactivity.)
>
> What is the option in the config file which control the unactivity  
> logout time ? becuase i want to decrease the inactivity time
>
> To 5 mins instead of 10 mins

You can't (at least without hacking the code).  The POP3 specification  
**requires** a minimum of 10 minutes before an autologout occurs (RFC  
1939 [3]):

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1939#section-3

michael



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