On 11.4.2012, at 17.49, Zhou, Yan wrote: > We are using DoveCot 1.0.13, it connects to LDAP server for authentication. > It seems that DoveCot keeps the idle LDAP connection open.
Yes. > Our firewall is terminating these connections after some time of idle > activity (2 hours), then, we run into authentication problem. If we restart > either LDAP or DoveCot, then it is fine. > > Can we set some kind of LDAP idle connection timeout in DoveCot? > /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf. I do not see any configuration available for 1.0.13. No. But if you upgrade to a newer Dovecot (v2.x probably) this is solved by automatic transparent reconnection.
