From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3484 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Artem Baguinski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: nnimap hangs on a bad server Date: 08 Feb 2004 19:18:23 +0100 Organization: Tiscali bv Message-ID: <8765ehqvtc.fsf@caracolito.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669587 19161 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:06:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:06:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:32:17 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news01.chello.no!amsnews01.chello.com!news.cambrium.nl!news.cambrium.nl!zonnet-feed!newsfeed.wxs.nl!transit.news.xs4all.nl!195.241.76.212.MISMATCH!tiscali!transit1.news.tiscali.nl!dreader2.news.tiscali.nl!not-for-mail Original-Sender: artm@caracolito.lan Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 08 Feb 2004 18:55:33 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.169.31.184 Original-X-Trace: 1076262933 dreader2.news.tiscali.nl 41754 82.169.31.184:22011 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@tiscali.nl X-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 18:57:10 MET (news01.chello.no) Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3625 Original-Lines: 28 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3625 Tue Jan 17 17:32:17 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3484 Archived-At: hello i have such a bad connection: now and then it's dropped and various applications suffer from it. one of the connection types that keeps disappearing is connection to my primary imap server. for a short time i tried to use pine and never really noticed that connection disappears, then MozillaThunderbird and it kept saying: "server has closed the connection" and finally GNUS and it simply hangs now and then. my switching the mail/news reader had nothing to do with this problem, i was looking for the one that acts like i want and it seems to me gnus is the one. except for this annoying hanging. i guess it's not gnus'es fault [ssh constantly disconnects saying "connection reset by peer" if i don't attend it for some time and as i said thunderbird was constantly complaining as well]. but still it's very frustrating to have to kill emacs if typing the article took too long. is there a way to set some "timeout" afterwhich gnus would reconnect, or somehting? + offtopic: if you know how to fix the cause, i'll appreciate it even more... -- gr{oe|ee}t{en|ings} artm