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Subject: Timeouts with nnimap?
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I use gnus to access, via nnimap, my email on an imap server on a
remote host.  Everything else I access via gnus is local to my
machine.

I've been having intermittent problems with my DSL connection, during
which I lose my ability to see anything outside of my local machine.
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.

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

Thanks in advance.

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com