Re: IMAP closing connection after inactivity

[Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>]

Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

> I have the same problem as the article I link and reproduce below. Is
> there a way to get Gnus to keep an IMAP session open without using a
> daemon to check for all new messages regularly?
>
> http://osdir.com/ml/emacs.gnus.user/2006-02/msg00133.html
>


I received a reply (below) on the Dovecot mailing list. Could anyone here
suggest a Gnus fix?


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| On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 17:51 +0100, Richard G Riley wrote:
| > Could someone suggest what the solution here is? Dovecot is terminating
| > the connection to Gnus after a certain period of activity. It's my own
| > mail server so no need to worry about "hogging resources". Should/could
| > Dovecot be configured to keep the connection alive, or should Gnus be
| > programmed to automatically reopen the conneection? The current problem
| > that one can not leave an IMAP group if the connection is cut by the
| > server.
| ..
| > | "dovecot: 2008-01-31 08:50:38Info: IMAP(gour): Disconnected for
| > | inactivity"
| 
| I'd say this is a Gnus bug. If an IMAP client wants the connection to
| stay open, it should send something at least every 29 mins. Most (if not
| all) IMAP servers disconnect connections after 30 minutes of idling.
| This is hardcoded in Dovecot, but you can of course change it:
| 
| src/imap/common.h:
| #define CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT (60*30)
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