MBOX-Line: From tss at iki.fi  Wed Feb 18 10:40:39 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: <53E653CF-EDA4-4B4B-8B1E-E1EAF6C29B36@imap.cc>
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>
	<53E653CF-EDA4-4B4B-8B1E-E1EAF6C29B36@imap.cc>
Message-ID: <1234982439.29240.1786.camel@timo-desktop>

A better idea is to send "* OK" replies instead of EXISTS replies.
Dovecot does that too ("* OK Still here.").

On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 10:40 -0800, David Rauschenbach wrote:
> 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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