Timeout for IMAP idle

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

According to the RFC, clients need to "renew" the IDLE state at least every 
30 minutes. I would assume that the clients you see are doing that. If not, 
you might see a different issue.

> right now cyrus imapd (2.4 / 2.5) doesn't have a timeout for connections
> in the "IDLE" state.
>
> One mail server here is serving a lot of Android K9 mail clients
> that make heavy use of IMAP idle. So far around 2300 imapd
> processes piled up even though it's just about 100 users in total.
> Some of those connections are in the IDLE state for two weeks now.
>
> What about adding a configurable timeout for IMAP idle?
>
> There were bugs in the past concerning Outlook Express
> and at least Outlook 2007 showing an offline status
> once the connection was closed on the server side.
> Various IMAP servers had quirks for this.
>
> Still an idle timeout of let's say 48h might make sense.



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