Re: Dealing with hanging IMAP connections

[Frank Schmitt <ich@frank-schmitt.net>]

John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net> writes:

> David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
>
>> On my notebook, which is connected via WLAN, my IMAP connection hangs
>> from time to time. When this happens, I completely have to restart Gnus,
>> which I find pretty annoying. Stefan Monnier posted a patch to
>> emacs-help which will open a new connection when you interrupt the
>> current IMAP operation with C-g. I've applied this patch to my
>> installation and find it very useful. I think this or something similar
>> should be applied to imap.el, preferably as a customizable option?
>>
>> Here's the link to Stefan's post:
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/69934
>
> Thanks, I'll check that out.
>
> In these situations, you might also try M-x list-processes, then
> (kill-process "imap") or "imap<1>" etc. That's what I often have to do
> when I change networks.

Me too. I use ssl so I have to "killall openssl" in a shell.

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