MBOX-Line: From lyndon at orthanc.ca  Fri Nov 24 15:52:11 2006
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:38 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] RFC 3501 section 5.4 Autologout timer
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> I just don't see how 3 minutes for non-authenticated sessions is a problem, 
> or why 5 minutes would be a benefit.  I oppose the proposal to stipulate 5 
> minutes on the grounds that it's unnecessary and it renders 
> currently-compliant implementations non-compliant.

Okay, I'm not going to beat this to death.  But I am going to set the 
pre-auth idle timeout to 1 second on everyone's IMAP servers :-P


--lyndon

   >What about all the people who hoarded tonnes of spam in their bunkers?

   I hoard spam on my hard drive.  When I heard about the coming
   Y2K worries, I downloaded a lifetime supply from the net.
   			-- Charlie Gibbs in alt.folklore.computers

