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Re: Recovering for broken imap sessions



On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 08:59:47AM EDT, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 10:25:26PM -0400, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:

> > Mutt doesn't know how to reconnect to an IMAP server.  Once you've lost
> > your connection, your session's history (including any changes you've
> > made to the mailbox since your last sync).
> 
> Is that something mutt should attempt to do?

IMHO, the answer should be "Yes," but coding it in Mutt's a pain (you know
where), so I prefer to solve the problem externally, with my imapproxy.

> > > Any tricks to make mutt give up on the existing connection and start a
> > > new one?
> > 
> > Well, you can start out with my imapproxy [1], and modify it to cache
> > authentication info and reconnect when it notices a dead connection.
> 
> Ok, I'll take a look.  Seems to be currently down:
> 
> moseley@bumby:~$ GET http://67.81.72.42:8000/dave/src/imapproxy/
> 500 Can't connect to 67.81.72.42:8000 (connect: Connection refused)

That's correct.  I seem to have deleted my Web server.  (Hey, nice
catch, there!)  I'm currently in the middle of compiling a new one,
which should hopefully be up sometime soon ;-)

Sorry 'bout that,
 - Dave

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