From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: ding@gnus.org
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Dealing with hanging IMAP connections
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:58:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <876392f9qd.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871vjqntqh.fsf@randomsample.de> (David Engster's message of "Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:18:46 +0100")
On Sun, Nov 22 2009, David Engster wrote:
> On my notebook, which is connected via WLAN, my IMAP connection hangs
> from time to time. When this happens, I completely have to restart Gnus,
> which I find pretty annoying. Stefan Monnier posted a patch to
> emacs-help which will open a new connection when you interrupt the
> current IMAP operation with C-g. I've applied this patch to my
> installation and find it very useful. I think this or something similar
> should be applied to imap.el, preferably as a customizable option?
Usually Stefan has a reason not to install a patch upstream, e.g. if
he knows about problems with the patch or if he thinks the solution
isn't clean. Stefan? (--> Cc-ed).
> Here's the link to Stefan's post:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/69934
[ What's all this report-emacs-bug/backtrace output about? ]
Bye, Reiner.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-22 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-22 21:18 David Engster
2009-11-22 22:48 ` John Sullivan
2009-11-23 7:59 ` Frank Schmitt
2009-11-30 10:30 ` Bojan Nikolic
2009-11-23 15:50 ` David Engster
2009-11-29 1:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-11-30 8:53 ` Steinar Bang
2009-11-22 22:58 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2009-11-23 3:02 ` Stefan Monnier
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