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On Wednesday, January 21 at 05:37 PM, quoth Michael M. Tung:
> I have a problem with the local imap server which only maintains the
> connection open for 15 seconds. Unfortunately there is no way to
> convince the administrator to increase this timeout.
Yike, that's a shockingly low timeout. He's aware that that timeout
violates the IMAP protocol (which FORBIDS timeouts less than 30
minutes), and wastes a lot of bandwidth in pointless pinging, right?
:P
> Thunderbird somehow keeps the connection open by pinging
> permanently. However, Thunderbird is not my favorite email client.
> ;-)
Did you have to configure Thunderbird in a particular way? I ask
because normally, Thunderbird is *incapable* of handling keepalive
times of less than 1 minute.
My guess is that Thunderbird is NOT actually keeping the connection
open, but is instead merely opening new connections as necessary.
> I have tried to tweak the parameters
>
> imap-keepalive
> timeout
> mail-check
>
> but couldn't make it work (using perhaps the wrong combination).
You may want to try updating your version of mutt. It had some
problems with low values of imap_keepalive that got fixed recently (I
*think* 1.5.19 has the necessary changes).
~Kyle
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