Re: Failing to reopen mailbox after SSH tunnel closure
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On Wednesday, January 10 at 04:16 PM, quoth Michael Williams:
>On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:42:41AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
>> No, you have not set up anything wrongly. Mutt's IMAP support is
>> extremely fragile, and apparently does not clean up after itself
>> internally when connections close unexpectedly. What you describe is
>> exactly what happens to ANYONE whose IMAP connection drops.
>
>Thanks. So it's just luck that mutt is able to recover from a closed and
>reopened tunnel consistently on two other client machines of mine? These
>machines connect to the same server and use the same .muttrc.
Luck is indeed what I'd call it. I suspect, also, that these other
machines may use different versions of the encryption libraries (ssl,
sasl, etc.) that are more tolerant of being improperly cleaned up.
~Kyle
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