Re: Gnus slow with IMAP when changing ISP's

[Damian]

>> In the meantime I've found a workaround. Apparently it is a problem
>> with gnutls. If I kill the process:
>>    killall gnutls-cli
>>
>> and check the mails again, then it works fine, without restarting
>> emacs (hooray!). Sadly I don't have the time (and maybe not the brain)
>> to hack into gnus to see if this can be solved more elegantly.
>>
>> But after all we live in an imperfect world, don't we?
>
>  Aha. that's surprising.  But using "gnutls-cli" alone doesn't give similar
> problem.Apparently, we'r not the only victims, and what Stefan suggested
> sounds reasonable : "In any case what I see happen is that the
> underlying connection is stuck and doesn't timeout and Gnus's imap backend
> doesn't have its own timeout to make up for it."
>
Do you think it is time for a bug report?