Hello,
I saw the problem quite often in various posts but could not find a real
solution .
Problem is that I frequently get annoying popups from outlook 2007 about imap
idle timeouts which block working with outlook until the popup is acknowledged.
The popup says:
Your IMAP server closed the connection. This can occur if you leave the
connection idle for too long.
Protocol: IMAP
Server: testhost
Port: 143
Error Code: 0x800CCCDD
I tried to run dovecot with or without "imap_client_workarounds =
outlook-idle" but do not see any difference.
I am running dovecot on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.1 (Tikanga).
Below is the output of some commands to get a clue about my config.
Background info:
Our primary mailboxes are on exchange servers.
As there is a size limit on the server mailboxes I am evaluating a local
storage solution for our users.
Thus I set up an additional mailbox in outlook using IMAP.
Local .pst files can not be backuped easily (especially when outlook is
running) and I am investigating a local IMAP server where users can move their
mails to. This server can easily be backuped (even incrementally when using
Maildir) and users do always have access to their mails.
The drawbacks are that users must have an extra login to the imap server
because I have no ldap access to the company AD server from our local site
domain.
The solution will not be accepted though if I can not prevent the frequent
disconnect popups.
Peter
#dovecot --version
1.0.rc15
#dovecot -n
# /etc/dovecot.conf
protocols: imap imaps
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
# tail /var/log/messages
Mar 26 06:45:28 testhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<peter>,
method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:130.143.81.176, lip=::ffff:130.143.83.92
Mar 26 06:46:01 testhost dovecot: IMAP(peter): Disconnected: Logged out
Mar 26 06:46:01 testhost dovecot: IMAP(peter): Disconnected
Mar 26 07:15:31 testhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<peter>,
method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:130.143.81.176, lip=::ffff:130.143.83.92
Mar 26 07:15:31 testhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<peter>,
method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:130.143.81.176, lip=::ffff:130.143.83.92
Mar 26 07:16:04 testhost dovecot: IMAP(peter): Disconnected
Mar 26 07:16:04 testhost dovecot: IMAP(peter): Disconnected
Mar 26 07:40:13 testhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<peter>,
method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:130.143.81.176, lip=::ffff:130.143.83.92
Mar 26 07:40:13 testhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<peter>,
method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:130.143.81.176, lip=::ffff:130.143.83.92
Mar 26 07:40:39 testhost dovecot: IMAP(peter): Disconnected
