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From: "Adam Sjøgren" <asjo@koldfront.dk>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Keeping IMAP connection alive when using it in mail-sources
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 19:18:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878riaw8vt.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cz7oj3s2.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

Eric writes:

> Not with the code as it's written! There's a very definite
> (imap-close buf) at the end of the mail source fetching, then the buffer
> is deleted. I guess it wouldn't be a bad idea to add a keepalive option
> to imap.el, but someone would have to do that!

I guess changing mail-source-fetch-imap to check if the buffer already
exists and if the connected process is still there, and then not closing
imap and not killing the buffer at the end, would be the bare minimum.

Interesting.

Thanks for the pointer!


  Best regards,

    Adam

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-10 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-08 18:10 Eric Abrahamsen
2023-01-10 18:18 ` Adam Sjøgren [this message]
2023-01-10 19:24   ` Adam Sjøgren
2023-01-10 20:08     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-14 21:29     ` Adam Sjøgren
2023-01-15 19:55       ` Adam Sjøgren
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-01-07 23:49 Adam Sjøgren

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