MBOX-Line: From tss at iki.fi  Wed Feb 18 10:30:10 2009
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:42 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] IDLE + inbox file
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0902181017110.34559@hsinghsing.panda.com>
References: <11E08CAD-B343-4845-9C33-1DA80AFD652E@psu.edu>
	<1234979693.29240.1770.camel@timo-desktop>
	<alpine.OSX.2.00.0902181017110.34559@hsinghsing.panda.com>
Message-ID: <1234981810.29240.1785.camel@timo-desktop>

On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 10:28 -0800, Mark Crispin wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > And I know that several clients
> > use a connection that IDLEs forever, without bothering to even do DONE +
> > IDLE every 29 minutes to avoid disconnection.
> 
> Outlook.

And Apple Mail. And Thunderbird.

> To work around the Outhouse bug, UW and Panda imapd both issue a fake 
> EXISTS response at minute 29 which forces the client to issue a DONE. 

Dovecot did that too before, but it didn't work with Apple/TB.

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