From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66154 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Process imap not running Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:50:44 +0100 Message-ID: References: <8763y7e1ji.fsf@photon.caeruleus.net> <87wsqc5ihz.fsf@photon.caeruleus.net> <8763xwxgzd.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> <86myr63igc.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200523929 26343 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2008 22:52:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:52:09 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14645@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jan 16 23:52:24 2008 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 1JFH7P-0003p6-Q4 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:52:24 +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 1JFH6k-0001w4-V2; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:51:43 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JFH6j-0001vl-4l for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:51:41 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JFH6d-0001vD-0U for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:51:40 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1JFH6d-0004dv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:51:35 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JFH6a-00047n-Ps for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:51:32 +0000 Original-Received: from p54a97471.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.169.116.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:51:32 +0000 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by p54a97471.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:51:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54a97471.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: mtjf/D:es1T0wHO:&CJ'ZXe"l;3C--rw\z!{`eFwL){|]RpI+4{u25L=5C /0>KuGeTsk<~<&NE-AKV1560e!+RJeyWmSskkrJm?[vUV#66{T_m|Ae<||Ku#Mk5`y&O`n~z2;n8eP J5#2h@2eQgV@E70IY_0WlEx!"&giy{+\%h1LJox$zv@/l%ZmU4^tZA>xQpnkUBVC5.jpg#0'(+2?Rs )NAr:>3<=WxHE$ktbLysDIM5TbmHu*3 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66154 Archived-At: On Tue, Jan 15 2008, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:27:48 +0100 Reiner Steib wrote: > > RS> On Mon, Jan 14 2008, Simon Josefsson wrote: > >>> It adds some unnecessary round-trips, but I guess we can live with >>> those. Maybe there could be a variable to turn them off, but we can >>> always add that later if people want it. > > RS> I added the variable `imap-ping-server', defaulting to t. Please > RS> adjust if necessary. > > I think it should be an integer, representing the minimum number of > seconds before it's triggered (or nil to turn it off). Is this feasible? Would someone like to implement this? > The default should be nil. When the IMAP server is far away, pinging > the server introduces a painful delay because of the TCP round trip. Could you explain how much delay it cause (and when)? As it seems to fix a problem for several users, it would be nice to set it to t. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/