[Dovecot] Dovecot IDLE bandwidth usage

[Ed W]

Gerald Villemure wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
>> TCP keepalives get sent so rarely that they don't keep NATed connections
>> alive. (Linux's tcp(7) says the first one is sent after 2h of idling)
>
>
> Its the same for windows systems, 2 hours.

You may find that some GPRS implementations drop idle connections after 
as little as 2 mins also...

You need to test your own GPRS implementation, but they certainly drop 
idle connections after a period (probably 2 mins is unusually short though)

Ed W