On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 10:24 +0530, Sherin George wrote: > 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.
Dovecot never disconnects IDLEing connections, because several clients expect to be able to do that. But I think you can configure kernel to send keepalive notifications more often (default is every 2,5h IIRC) and then it would notice died connections sooner.
