[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#637478: fetchmail: 28 minute IDLE timeout, should be configurable

[Anders Kaseorg]

On 08/12/2011 03:19 AM, Matthias Andree wrote:
> The IMAP standard (RFC-3501) has clear requirements with respect to how
> long servers need to tolerate connections left idle by clients,

As much as the proxy’s behavior sucks, the proxy is under no obligation 
to support the IMAP standard.

> and if the connection gets dropped so soon, IDLE support gets pointless.

No it isn’t!  You still get to see your mail within seconds instead of 
waiting for the next poll interval, and it’s still more efficient to 
start another IDLE request every so often than to completely tear down 
the connection and create a new one.

> Please file a bug or support request against the proxy that drops the
> connection so soon in the IDLE phase.

I certainly complained about it but nothing happened (I imagine a huge 
corporate IT department is not interested in such “trivial” problems).

Anders