From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30605 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francisco Solsona Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: sticking with multiple Mail Sources? Date: 02 May 2000 20:06:01 -0500 Organization: Universidad Nacional=?iso-8859-1?q?_Aut=F3noma?= de=?iso-8859-1?q?_M=E9xico?= Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167117 9366 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:25:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:25:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F27D0523 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 21:39:38 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAB03383; Tue, 2 May 2000 20:39:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 02 May 2000 20:38:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA27797 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 20:38:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from biblio08.fciencias.unam.mx (biblio08.fciencias.unam.mx [132.248.133.179]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF6E5D0523 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 21:37:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from solsona@localhost) by biblio08.fciencias.unam.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA02819; Tue, 2 May 2000 20:37:06 -0500 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: Ding list In-Reply-To: Jack Vinson's message of "01 May 2000 21:18:58 -0500" X-Home-Page: http://www.biblioteca.fciencias.unam.mx/solsona X-Face: "e<&PCSuDeI>Wnz0s(fk:UP((Y'&0**fKwX:LL\,e"-5AS4+1|fdTE!(r,"&eLI}x(aQy-j M(jT(KvDbG@:bC<#KFDy}}*'Y8V7@DGOy39Ze@8P@tN)a%m/+'#Z?[+V&XUibbO 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 -- Without facts, the decision cannot be made logically. You must rely on your human intuition. -- Spock, "Assignment: Earth", stardate unknown