[Dovecot] Disconnected for inactivity time.

Joseph Tam jtam.home at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 02:46:30 EEST 2012


Robert JR writes:

> 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

Looks like it's set in the source code

 	pop3-client.c:#define CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MSECS (10*60*1000)

but the output of

 	# doveconf -a
 	...
 	service pop3 {
 	...
 	  idle_kill = 0
 	...
 	}

maybe points to the config that overrides this.  Easy enough to test.
It's non-RFC compliant as one poster points out, so unless you got a
good reason to do this like lots of zombie pop3 processes, leave it alone.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>



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