From: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: New imap Implementation and Keepalive
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:01:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i7gt99$j2g$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwx1npti.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem>
On 9/23/2010 3:42 AM, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
>
> Firstly I want to thank everyone involved for the speedup in the new
> imap implementation. However, I am encountering one annoying problem- it
> seems like the new implementation does not keep the connection alive
> like the old one does. In the old implementation I just need to enter my
> imap password once interactively per Gnus session (I wasn't using
> auth-sources at that time). With the new implementation my imaps server
> (dovecot) drops connection due to inactivity and I need to enter my long
> gpg passphrase again if my pass phrase cache have expired.
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. If everybody forcibly keeps their sessions alive,
the mail servers are likely to run out of connections and refuse new connections.
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.
My two cents.
Cheers,
Uday
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-24 1:01 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 [this message]
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
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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