On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:49:02PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 23 Aug 2016, at 15:08, [email protected] wrote: > > > > Hello Guys, > > I guess that I found a bug in Dovecot 2.2.18 and 2.2.25 versions. The > > problem it's when I try to connect in a Dovecot used a proxy to another > > e-mail server (in our case it's a Smartermail Server) the DoveCot send a > > lot of IDLE commands to the destination server. With that, the LOG files > > grow and grow and grow :( > > > > I make a test with 1 connection only and if you see the log file in the > > same second the dovecot send 25, 40 IDLE commands. But, when I disconnect > > the client (outlook 2013) the dovecot continue to send the IDLE command for > > some seconds. > > After login Dovecot proxy no longer understands anything about the traffic. > It simply keeps proxying the IMAP traffic between the client and server. So > Dovecot isn't the one generating the IDLE commands, it's Outlook. > > > If I try to connect directly to Smartermail with Outlook this don't > > occurrs. > > That is stranger then. Maybe it has something to do with having a different > CAPABILITY response. You could try setting imap_capability setting to same as > what Smartermail announces. Other than that I can't really think of anything > specific that you could do or we could fix on Dovecot code.
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