From: Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@sympatico.ca>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: New imap Implementation and Keepalive
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:00:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eicj9tyw.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i7gt99$j2g$1@dough.gmane.org>
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Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk> writes:
> I think it is a bit unkind to keep IMAP sessions alive just for the
> sake of it. The mail server administrators set their time-out policies
> to make the best possible use of resources.
This should be implemented as an option like other email programs such
as mutt, Pine, Thunderbird, etc. My imap server is actually local on my
own machine.
> If the problem is really that the password cache is expiring, it is
> far better to block that instead of trying to tax the mail server.
Security?
Charles
--
"Never make any mistaeks."
(Anonymous, in a mail discussion about to a kernel bug report.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-24 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-23 2:42 Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-23 16:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-23 19:29 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-09-23 19:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-23 20:23 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-09-23 20:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-24 1:01 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-24 12:34 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-09-24 16:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-25 5:21 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 6:14 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 13:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-25 14:07 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 14:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-25 16:01 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 16:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-25 17:23 ` Dave Goldberg
2010-09-25 18:08 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 18:22 ` David Engster
2010-09-25 17:53 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 17:35 ` CHENG Gao
2010-09-25 19:01 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 22:08 ` Greg Troxel
2010-09-26 1:59 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 12:52 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-24 13:00 ` Charles Philip Chan [this message]
2010-09-25 12:59 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-25 13:08 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2010-09-25 15:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-25 23:03 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-25 15:48 ` Austin F. Frank
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