Re: Dealing with hanging IMAP connections

[John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net>]

David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:

> 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?
>
> Here's the link to Stefan's post:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/69934

Thanks, I'll check that out.

In these situations, you might also try M-x list-processes, then
(kill-process "imap") or "imap<1>" etc. That's what I often have to do
when I change networks.

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