dovecot - Oct 2012 - Disconnected for inactivity time.

Hello,

After 10 mins of unactivity of pop3 , dovecot disconnect the user (-ERR 
Disconnected for inactivity.)

What is the option in the config file which control the unactivity 
logout time ? becuase i want to decrease the inactivity time

To 5 mins instead of 10 mins

Please advise

Robert JR

Quoting Robert JR <roundcube222 at alaadin.org>:
> After 10 mins of unactivity of pop3 , dovecot disconnect the user  
> (-ERR Disconnected for inactivity.)
>
> What is the option in the config file which control the unactivity  
> logout time ? becuase i want to decrease the inactivity time
>
> To 5 mins instead of 10 mins
You can't (at least without hacking the code).  The POP3 specification  
**requires** a minimum of 10 minutes before an autologout occurs (RFC  
1939 [3]):

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1939#section-3

michael

Robert JR writes:
> After 10 mins of unactivity of pop3 , dovecot disconnect the user (-ERR
> Disconnected for inactivity.)
>
> What is the option in the config file which control the unactivity
> logout time ? becuase i want to decrease the inactivity time
>
> To 5 mins instead of 10 mins
Looks like it's set in the source code

 	pop3-client.c:#define CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MSECS (10*60*1000)

but the output of

 	# doveconf -a
 	...
 	service pop3 {
 	...
 	  idle_kill = 0
 	...
 	}

maybe points to the config that overrides this.  Easy enough to test.
It's non-RFC compliant as one poster points out, so unless you got a
good reason to do this like lots of zombie pop3 processes, leave it alone.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>