Re: IMAP closing connection after inactivity

[Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>]

Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 31 2008, Richard G Riley wrote:
>>
>>> Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I have the same problem as the article I link and reproduce below. Is
>>>> there a way to get Gnus to keep an IMAP session open without using a
>>>> daemon to check for all new messages regularly?
>>>>
>>>> http://osdir.com/ml/emacs.gnus.user/2006-02/msg00133.html
>>>>
>>>
>>> I received a reply (below) on the Dovecot mailing list. Could anyone here
>>> suggest a Gnus fix?
>>
>> Is your problem the same as described in the thread
>> <http://thread.gmane.org/8763y7e1ji.fsf@photon.caeruleus.net>?  Does
>> the patch suggested there (already included in current cvs) solve the
>> problem?
>>
>> Bye, Reiner.
>
> Hi Reiner,
>
> It solved the problem, thanks.
>
> Q: why didn't this solve the problem? (I'm not a lisp programmer but it
> seemed to be the right idea and the function was certainly polled every
> 10 minutes)
>
> ,----
> | (setq myimapserver "nnimap:myimapserver")
> | 
> | (defun keepmailserverawake ()
> |   (gnus-demon-scan-mail)
> |   (message "Mail scanned from the Gnus demon at %s" (current-time-string))
> | )
> | 
> | (require 'gnus-demon)
> | (setq gnus-use-demon t)
> | (gnus-demon-add-handler 'keepmailserverawake 10 nil)
> | (gnus-demon-init)
> `----

Sorry. I spoke to soon. I am denied access again. I'll look into it some
more tomorrow.