Re: Timeouts with nnimap?

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

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.

> Is there any way to set a timeout for nnimap, to prevent gnus from
> hanging in this case?

Not from a variable, but perhaps you could add some logic to
`imap-wait-for-tag' (the function that waits for network I/O), I'd
guess it's this function that "hangs".  If it's the built-in
`accept-process-output' function that hangs, this probably can only be
fixed in the emacs core.  Reproducing this outside of Gnus (using
calls to `open-network-stream' etc) would be a good thing to simplify
debugging.