Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
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.
Which is why I finally spent the time and deciphered the netqmail smtp auth patch :). Turns out it is almost *painfully* easy, provided you have checkpassword and dig through the README. But woe be unto the person who tries getting the information by searching via google :)
--Kurt
(For the sake of the record, once you have the patch installed, you just modify your run script to have "/bin/checkpassword /bin/true" after qmail-smtpd. Myself, I removed the CRAM-MD5 stuff because Thunderbird (and presumably other clients) try that first and if you aren't using it, you have a 5 second penalty until LOGIN or PLAIN is tried and it works).
