On 26.7.2012, at 16.58, Nicolás wrote: > I'm writing because of an issue I'm having with my Postfix-Dovecot > installation. Everything's working fine but when an IMAP client is idle for > some time, Dovecot automatically logs it out. > > Jul 26 14:01:16 mail dovecot: imap(nico...@devels.es): Disconnected: Logged > out bytes=1271/7439
IMAP client logs out. Dovecot doesn't automatically do anything. There's no way (even theoretically) to prevent this from Dovecot's side. > This entails errors when trying to send e-mails after this auto logout, such > as: > > host devels.es[91.215.158.237] said: > 550-Please turn on SMTP Authentication in your mail client, or login to the > 550-IMAP/POP3 server before sending your message. Your server supports pop3/imap-before-smtp kludge. I'd remove that entirely and require SMTP AUTH always.
