From: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: New imap Implementation and Keepalive
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:52:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i7kr9t$vkj$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mxr7coc2.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de>
On 9/24/2010 1:34 PM, Frank Schmitt wrote:
> No. For IMAP it is perfectly normal that the client keeps the connection
> open as long as he is active. It's even in the RFC.
Yes, I see that. I think this part of the spec was most likely
counter-productive. There seems to have been an arms race with clients trying
to keep the connections alive and the servers or server managers trying to
close them before the clients get around to doing that. In the end, several
ISP's now close IMAP connections within minutes. Even timeouts as short as 30
seconds have been reported.
Perhaps this game has now been lost irretrievably.
Note that if the client keeps the session alive, then it should take
responsibility to eventually close the connection.
Cheers,
Uday
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-25 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-23 2:42 Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-23 16:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-23 19:29 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-09-23 19:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-23 20:23 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-09-23 20:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-24 1:01 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-24 12:34 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-09-24 16:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-25 5:21 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 6:14 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 13:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-25 14:07 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 14:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-25 16:01 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 16:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-25 17:23 ` Dave Goldberg
2010-09-25 18:08 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 18:22 ` David Engster
2010-09-25 17:53 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 17:35 ` CHENG Gao
2010-09-25 19:01 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 22:08 ` Greg Troxel
2010-09-26 1:59 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 12:52 ` Uday S Reddy [this message]
2010-09-24 13:00 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 12:59 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-25 13:08 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2010-09-25 15:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-25 23:03 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-25 15:48 ` Austin F. Frank
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