Hibernation disabled when mailbox selected

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Oct 18 17:25:49 UTC 2015


On 18 Oct 2015, at 05:20, Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> After setting imap_hibernate_timeout to 60s, I could not find any
> hibernated connections after a few hours.  I tested hibernation and made
> an observation: IDLE'd imap sessions only hibernate if they don't have
> a mailbox SELECT'd, otherwise they never hibernate.
> 
> Is this the way it's supposed to work?

What client is that? IDLE doesn't really make much sense when a mailbox isn't SELECTed, so I expected that all the clients would have something SELECTed.. But yeah, the code could be changed to support that.



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