>From how I understand the RFC, if no IMAP IDLE capability is advertised, the
>client should not attempt to use it and should close the TCP socket after
>every operation. Backberry connections to courier-imap and dovecot will not
>maintain a TCP session, they seem to when Cyrus is the IMAP server.
R.
> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:38:28 +0100
> Subject: Re: disable IMAP IDLE
> From: simon.mat...@invoca.ch
> To: prout...@hotmail.com
> CC: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I thought it was possible in Cyrus to disable the IDLE functionality,
> > either with imapidlepoll: 0 in imapd.conf, or by commenting idled in
> > cyrus.conf. However, having both disabled, clients still connect and
> > maintain their socket open on tcp 143. Is it not possible or am I going
> > about it wrong?
>
> I may be completely wrong but as I understand it the IMAP client may
> always keep connection on port 143 established, IDLE just changes the way
> how the client learns about new messages and such.
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
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