From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69217 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Frank Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Dealing with hanging IMAP connections Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:59:00 +0100 Organization: Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi Message-ID: References: <871vjqntqh.fsf@randomsample.de> <87einq6us0.fsf@myles.home.wjsullivan.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258991326 9401 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2009 15:48:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:48:46 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17622@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Nov 23 16:48:39 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NCb9b-0007dl-3T for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:48:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NCb8d-0003NA-9a; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:47:39 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NCTqZ-000050-O9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:00:31 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NCTqY-0001RS-AQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:00:31 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1NCTqX-0003hl-00 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:00:29 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NCTqV-0001mw-Hc for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:00:27 +0100 Original-Received: from zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.69.172]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:00:27 +0100 Original-Received: from ich by zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:00:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de X-Face: :EL9TzGRN){7|oE2~xQ8Q(VjpjsXgX$~gi&rYD5J5p)$w\Thdl~v:7h`/n)J!8nXT%_+Wj6}@EHM8}QbA(9nX-wrQ:ch1%DauV[?kFasXUcnL#+"K8zOx&$@/M'/},q-eztaJra1|?C+p$h\2XnK-HB"8_U Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69217 Archived-At: John Sullivan writes: > David Engster 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. -- Have you ever considered how much text can fit in eighty columns? Given that a signature typically contains up to four lines of text, this space allows you to attach a tremendous amount of valuable information to your messages. Seize the opportunity and don't waste your signature on bullshit that nobody cares about.