Re: IMAP timeout during SMTP transmission

[Rocco Rutte <pdmef@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

* Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> I found a situation where mutt can sometimes forget about its  
> connections: when using smtp to send email. Apparently during  
> transmission, mutt forgets about $imap_timeout (or any of the other  
> ones). Thus, if my IMAP server disconnects people who are idle for 10  
> minutes and it takes 11 minutes to send a long email (e.g. an attachment 
> over a slow modem), mutt will be disconnected.

How about taking the imap keepalive dance from keymap.c, turn that into
a function which returns the proper value for timeout()? That function
could then be called right before every progress update.

Rocco