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Re: imap server dropping connection while taking too long reading



On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:44:39 -0500, "Kyle Wheeler"
<kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
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> On Thursday, November  2 at 10:19 AM, quoth Marc Vaillant:
> >When composing or reading a message from an imap server, mutt must 
> >not poll the server because the connection gets dropped if you take 
> >too long.  Although this is less annoying with the header_cache 
> >option which greatly speeds up reconnecting to the server, it's still 
> >annoying and you end up loosing message flags.  Is there any way to 
> >keep this from happening? 
> 
> I don't know, but I would love to get this fixed as well. It's 
> particularly irritating when composing, because if your connection 
> gets dropped, you can't save the FCC of your message, which means you 
> can't SEND the message you've just spent an hour composing. Mutt will 
> demand to know if you want to create this folder (which did exist, 
> back when you were connected). If you say no, it'll abort sending. If 
> you say yes, it'll try to connect, fail (because mutt seems to be 
> incapable of reconnecting to an SSL imap server), and abort sending.
> 
> You might try filing a bug on http://bugs.mutt.org, I don't know if 
> one exists for this problem yet or not.
> 

Kyle, I figured it out.  There's a variable called imap_keepalive.  It's 
set by default to 900.  Setting it to 120 solves the problem for me.     
I'm running mutt version 1.5.11.                                         
                                                                                
                                                   
Marc        
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