Re: disable IMAP IDLE

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On 11/23/2010 08:52 AM, Ron Vachiyer wrote:
 >From how I understand the RFC, if no IMAP IDLE capability is
advertised, the client should not attempt to use it and should close the
TCP socket after every operation. Backberry connections to courier-imap
and dovecot will not maintain a TCP session, they seem to when Cyrus is
the IMAP server.

Is your server advertising IDLE ?

telnet to port 143 and issue this command:

. CAPABILITY




R.


 > Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:38:28 +0100
 > Subject: Re: disable IMAP IDLE
 > From: simon.matter@xxxxxxxxx
 > To: proutfoo@xxxxxxxxxxx
 > CC: info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 >
 > >
 > > Hello,
 > >
 > > I thought it was possible in Cyrus to disable the IDLE functionality,
 > > either with imapidlepoll: 0 in imapd.conf, or by commenting idled in
 > > cyrus.conf. However, having both disabled, clients still connect and
 > > maintain their socket open on tcp 143. Is it not possible or am I going
 > > about it wrong?
 >
 > I may be completely wrong but as I understand it the IMAP client may
 > always keep connection on port 143 established, IDLE just changes the way
 > how the client learns about new messages and such.
 >
 > Regards,
 > Simon
 >



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