Re: Timeouts with nnimap?

["Bjørn Mork" <bmork@dod.no>]

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
> 
> > While I'm having these problems, `gnus-group-get-new-news' and other
> > similar commands hang forever while gnus tries to access the imap
> > server for my nnimap group.  This causes gnus to hang in a state that
> > can only be interrupted by issuing a `kill' command from another
> > shell.
> 
> If C-g doesn't interrupt things, it's probably a emacs problem.

Well, there is something strange with nnimap connections. The
behaviour is different from nntp when you lose network connectivity
while having open connections. I guess that is somewhat reasonable
since the nnimap client will need to syncronize state with the server
before closing. But it would still be useful to have some way to force
a nnimap server disconnect. I sometimes forget closing or unplugging
before moving my laptop between networks, and then I am lost: The
nnimap connections cannot be killed without exiting from Gnus.


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