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Re: imap shuts down



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On Wednesday, January 21 at 05:37 PM, quoth Michael M. Tung:
> I have a problem with the local imap server which only maintains the 
> connection open for 15 seconds. Unfortunately there is no way to 
> convince the administrator to increase this timeout.

Yike, that's a shockingly low timeout. He's aware that that timeout 
violates the IMAP protocol (which FORBIDS timeouts less than 30 
minutes), and wastes a lot of bandwidth in pointless pinging, right? 
:P

> Thunderbird somehow keeps the connection open by pinging 
> permanently. However, Thunderbird is not my favorite email client. 
> ;-)

Did you have to configure Thunderbird in a particular way? I ask 
because normally, Thunderbird is *incapable* of handling keepalive 
times of less than 1 minute.

My guess is that Thunderbird is NOT actually keeping the connection 
open, but is instead merely opening new connections as necessary.

> I have tried to tweak the parameters
>
>       imap-keepalive 
>       timeout 
>       mail-check
>
> but couldn't make it work (using perhaps the wrong combination).

You may want to try updating your version of mutt. It had some 
problems with low values of imap_keepalive that got fixed recently (I 
*think* 1.5.19 has the necessary changes).

~Kyle
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