Possible IMAP IDLE bug in Dovecot 2.2.18 and 2.2.25

[Aki Tuomi]

On 23.08.2016 15:08, cleber-listas at inetweb.com.br wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>   I guess that I found a bug in Dovecot 2.2.18 and 2.2.25 versions. The
> problem it's when I try to connect in a Dovecot used a proxy to another
> e-mail server (in our case it's a Smartermail Server) the DoveCot send a
> lot of IDLE commands to the destination server. With that, the LOG files
> grow and grow and grow :(
>    
>   I make a test with 1 connection only and if you see the log file in the
> same second the dovecot send 25, 40 IDLE commands. But, when I disconnect
> the client (outlook 2013) the dovecot continue to send the IDLE command for
> some seconds.
>    
>   If I try to connect directly to Smartermail with Outlook this don't
> occurrs.
>    
>

Just to be sure, the behaviour you are expecting is that IDLE is not 
used, right?

Aki