Re: IMAP problem sending mail
On Tuesday, 26 July 2005 at 16:09, Sayantan Sur wrote:
> > It quite clearly is a server crash. The server is sending this line
> > and disconnecting:
> >
> > * BYE [ALERT] IMAP4rev1 server crashing: Unknown event from execution
> > process
> >
> > Note that this text never appears in the mutt code :)
> >
> > Other clients probably perform better for one of two likely reasons:
> > 1. they don't hold the inbox open with a long-term select. There's
> > really nothing wrong with doing this, it's just a design
> > decision. Mutt isn't multithreaded and only handles one mailbox at
> > a time, so it makes sense to park on the open mailbox.
> > 2. They are presumably better at automatically reconnecting. This is
> > certainly something mutt should be taught to do, and I'll try to
> > work on it if I can keep my schedule light for a little bit
> > longer...
>
> Thanks, the explanation makes sense. Since it is a university mail
> server, I cannot upgrade :-( At the same time I like using mutt :-)
> Even if my mutt crashes, I am able to recover the message from
> /tmp/mutt-XXX
If mutt crashes that's still a mutt bug, and we'd like to fix it. It
was that that my original patch in this thread was supposed to
address.