Hello, I am also in a similar position.
I have a server sitting behind hardware firewall which is configured to timeout all connections in 30 minutes. So, I would like to set dovecot to 30 minutes. Could some one please let me know whether it is possible or not, at least. Thanks in advance. -- Kind Regards, Sherin On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Tamas Kadar <tamas.ka...@espell.com> wrote: > (a) the server is on the internet and the clients are behind the dodgy cable > modem. > > Yeah, except there are no alternatives to our ISPs at the moment, so I'd > rather have a kind-of-solution with shorter timeouts... > > KT > > -----Original Message----- > From: dovecot-bounces+tamas.kadar=espell....@dovecot.org > [mailto:dovecot-bounces+tamas.kadar=espell....@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of > William Blunn > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:02 PM > To: dovecot@dovecot.org > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] IMAP connection timeout value? > > On 19/08/2010 11:04, Tamas Kadar wrote: >> So we're having some ISP issues lately, meaning we have to reboot our >> cable modem like 2-3 times a day. An unfortunate side-effect I've >> found is, once the users max out their connection limit (which I've >> set to 10, and many people do), if we reboot the cable modem, they >> can't log in cause their connections get 'stuck' until I `doveadm >> kick` them, or wait for the connections to timeout which takes ??? >> minutes. Can I adjust that value to something like 30 seconds? > > Is it: > > (a) your server is on the Internet, and your clients are behind the dodgy > cable modem, or > > (b) your mail server behind the dodgy cable modem and the clients are out on > the Internet > > ? > > Either way I would suggest an improvement to your architecture would be to > put the mail server on the same side of the dodgy cable modem as the > majority of users. > > If you have a mix of office users and out-of-office users, I would say put > the mail server on the Internet side. At least then the people struggling > out in a hotel in the middle of nowhere won't have to fight your dodgy cable > modem as well as their dodgy foreign internet connection. > > Bill > >
