From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: workaround for IMAP server-side timeout during mail splitting
Date: Wed, 02 May 2018 11:31:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muxi9wnv.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7tj4bpa.fsf@Niukka.kon.iki.fi>
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On Tuesday, 1 May 2018 at 18:50, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
> I had a problem where my email provider's IMAP server closed the
> connection while Gnus was splitting received mail to nnml
> folders, and Gnus was then unable to expunge those messages from
> the server. I worked around it by customizing the mail-sources
> variable and adding various date limits to the predicate.
> I hope this information will help someone else.
Interesting and very helpful! I am forced to use outlook at work and
found that splitting often failed due to this same issue. I stopped
using splitting for this server. I may have to try again but it
definitely would be nice if gnus would cater for servers that time out
frequently.
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Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.1.6 on Debian buster/sid
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2018-05-01 15:50 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
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