Controlling inactivity timeout for IMAP

[André Peters]

I was following this in hope someone would answer.

As a workaround I recommend to set up a POP3 connection with a low 
polling interval (besides using a TCP Proxy...).

André

Am 07.02.2015 um 07:15 schrieb Joseph Tam:
>
> I have a problem with a user who uses a wireless carrier that keeps
> changing his IP as he travels throughout the city.  From the perspective
> of our dovecot IMAP server, the user keeps logging in from another IP,
> and after a short while, hits up against the mail_max_userip_connections
> limit.  It takes 30 minutes before those orphaned connections times out.
>
> Is there any way to decrease the IMAP idle timeout other than to
> recompile dovecot with a new value?
>
>      imap-common.h:#define CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MSECS (60*30*1000)
>
> For example, will this work?
>
>      service imap {
>          idle_kill = 600
>      }
>
> Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>

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