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bug#16026: Gnus shouldn't use old connections
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Stefan Monnier |
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Subject: |
bug#16026: Gnus shouldn't use old connections |
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Date: |
Wed, 25 Jan 2017 13:26:04 -0500 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> There is `nntp-connection-timeout', and nnimap could have something
> similar, I guess.
> The difficulty is in determining what a good timeout should be. If you
> send an EXPUNGE to an IMAP server, it may legitimately take many
> seconds, and you get no output from the server while it's doing this.
> If you kill the connection and reissue the commands, you then get error
> messages, I think?
I think in my case a timeout of 30min would cover the main cases already
(i.e. the machine was suspended for more than 30min).
Stefan