MBOX-Line: From davidr at imap.cc  Wed Feb 18 10:40:02 2009
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: David Rauschenbach <davidr@imap.cc>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:42 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] IDLE + inbox file
In-Reply-To: <1234981810.29240.1785.camel@timo-desktop>
References: <11E08CAD-B343-4845-9C33-1DA80AFD652E@psu.edu>
	<1234979693.29240.1770.camel@timo-desktop>
	<alpine.OSX.2.00.0902181017110.34559@hsinghsing.panda.com>
	<1234981810.29240.1785.camel@timo-desktop>
Message-ID: <53E653CF-EDA4-4B4B-8B1E-E1EAF6C29B36@imap.cc>

In a similar vein, our mobile gateway issues a fake EXISTS at around  
the 2-minute mark, to keep the mobile operator networks from timing  
out the TCP session.

David


On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> 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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