arcfide@sacrideo.us (Aaron W. Hsu) writes:

> Hey all:
>
> I have noticed that an idle IMAP connection in Gnus on my system has a
> tendency to hang without resolution. I have a tls stream with a
> logout-timeout set to 1.0. However, this doesn't seem to actually keep
> the connection alive or reset the connection when it should. I read in
> the GnusNiftyTricks in the EmacsWiki about a means of keeping the IMAP
> connection alive, but the notes at the bottom indicate that Emacs 24,
> which I am using, has this built in. 

I had had this problem in Emacsen 23.4 and 24.3, but had not solved it
because of not very big experience. I decided to use SSL instead. It
has been working perfectly for all this time.