Re: nnimap woes again

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Amos Gouaux wrote:

> Occasionally I've noticed that the ssl session (via stunnel) to our
> IMAP server will hang.  I then have to `pkill openssl' and then do a
> `g' in my *Group* buffer.  Usually this will cause me to login again
> via ssl and things are peachy.

I've seen something similar with ssh: if the remote end drops the
connection, you don't see that until you type a command into your
local ssh client.  Only then does the local ssh client tell you that
the connection is down.

Gnus looks whether the connection is up before sending a command, but
once it has determined that the connection is up, it expects the
connection to be up and doesn't check again.

Maybe Gnus could be changed to see when it sent the last command.  If
that has been more than a configurable number of seconds ago, it sends
a no-op command to the remote end to see if the connection is still
up.  But nobody has implemented that, I'm afraid.

kai
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