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Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> writes:

> gnus-version's value is "Gnus v5.10.3"
>
> I have an nnimap server, connect to it (with starttls), read mail for
> a while, then ignore it a while.  When I return, and do a "g" to check
> mail (or go into a group to check headers, or...) Gnus reports
>
>   Unable to open nnimap:myservername, go offline?
>
> I see this is done in gnus-int.el: gnus-open-server, but don't
> understand why it's happening.  Does it indicate that my IMAP server
> has torn down the connection , but Gnus doesn't automatically
> reconnect?

Gnus do try to re-open the connection, but apparently it failed to do
so, and asked that question.  Look in the *Message* buffer for any
earlier errors that may suggest why it was unable to reopen the
connection.