Re: sticking with multiple Mail Sources?

[Francisco Solsona <flsc@hp.fciencias.unam.mx>]

Jack Vinson <JackVinson@yahoo.com> writes:

[...]

> Does Gnus have code to check for timeouts of multiple mail sources?  It
> does check for at least one mail source.  I've had it tell me that one of
> them had timed out.

        I also have a pop mail source, and when there's a lot of
traffic, or the pop server is down, busy, etc. I had to C-g any attemp
to *-get-new-news. To mitigate this problem I advised `pop3-movemail'
which is what I use to get mail from my pop server, and the default
also, here's the code, from my .gnus:

,--------------------
| (defvar pop3-regular-delay 120
|   "Time in seconds that takes to usually open a connection to your
| pop server.")
| 
| (defadvice pop3-movemail (around pop3-movemail-timeout activate)
|   "If connection to the pop server can be established relatively fast,
| then proceed, otherwise timeout and forget about this pop server, until next
| time anyway."
|   (with-timeout (pop3-regular-delay
|                  (message "Pop connection timeout!")
|                  nil)
|     ad-do-it))
`--------------------

...works for me. As is, tries to get your mail from each pop server
for 2 minutes (each) before being timeout.

It isn't perfect in a (big) number of ways, but you may use it as a
starting point and hack something more intelligent.

hth,
Francisco
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