Re: [ANNOUNCE] perdition 1.18-rc1

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 01:15:16PM +0900, Christian Balzer wrote:
> 
> Hello Simon,
> 
> On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:24:41 +1000 Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 11:23:15AM +0900, Christian Balzer wrote:
> > >
> > > Looking at the Changelog I didn't spot anything relating to it, so
> > > would there be a chance to include the feature/fix raised in:
> > > http://lists.vergenet.net/pipermail/perdition-users/2009-January/002074.html
> > > 
> > > Or at least adding it to the TODO? 
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi Christian,
> > 
> > sorry that one missed the release. It seems like good idea to me.
> > Could you tell me if in the case where you are seeing the problem
> > the client is connecting using plain-text or SSL/TLS ?
> > 
> The particular case back then (never happened again, btw) was plain
> text connects. But again, most likely something in the chinese firewall
> caused that behavior. 
> The problem that I'm still seeing here as mentioned in:
> http://lists.vergenet.net/pipermail/perdition-users/2008-February/001973.html
> is entirely SSL (pop3s/imaps) based. Sessions/processes will remain in the
> "connect" basically forever.
> Fixing the actual issue (which is likely something SSL related) would of
> course be nice, but some setting that kills off processes that are in
> connect state for a given time has ultimately the same effect and is more
> universally useful. ^_^

Agreed on all counts.

At this stage I am thinking in terms of a idle timeout.
Though I think the default will need to be infinite as
some people like to leave idle IMAP session lying around.

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