On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Andrea Riela wrote: >Kyle Wheeler wrote: >> That's just the problem---according to the IMAP spec (or IMAPS), there's >> a 30 minute time-out between when you authenticate and when non-traffic >> will force you to re-authenticate. What that means is that if you >> authenticate, according to the IMAP spec you don't have to >> re-authenticate for a very long time. >Thanks for all, guys, >just a question: as you say, Kyle, the possible workaround maybe is set >$RELAYCLEAR=30 minutes?
No. IMAP requires the client to show signs of life every 30 minutes (or less than 30 minutes). But it doesn't require the client to log off and log on again. It's quite common to hold the same IMAP session open for several days, or even weeks. Andy :-) -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something http://www.bincimap.org/ | than to do it poorly."
