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Subject: Re: recovery from disconnection without restarting gnus ?
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"A. L. Meyers" <nospam.look@replyto.because.this.is.invalid> wrote:
> Hi! After 5 minutes of idle time the network disconnects from the ISP
> and reconnects on demand. Occasionally composing a message takes longer
> than 5 minutes and the network meanwhile disconnects. I have encountered
> the following behaviour from Gnus in such cases:
>
> 1. sending the message does not complete, although the network quickly
>    establishes a new connection; I have to interrupt the send attempt
>    with C-g .

You could add something like this to message-send-hook:
(defun alm:revive-network ()
  (shell-command-to-string "ping -c 4 www.gnus.org"))

This way, the network will (hopefully) already be back up by the time
Gnus tries to use it.

> 2. I must exit Gnus, which asks me to confirm not to kill the message
>    draft buffer with "no".

Why must you exit Gnus?


paul