From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to prevent Gnus from losing connection with nnimap? Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:42:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87r61bqeqk.fsf@bornier.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236332633 21255 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2009 09:43:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:43:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Jean Magnan de Bornier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 06 10:45:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LfWc2-0002UP-Bt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:45:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49912 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LfWah-00028I-2L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:43:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LfWZo-0001wh-VV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:42:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LfWZo-0001wB-4m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:42:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46390 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LfWZn-0001w3-Ru for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:42:43 -0500 Original-Received: from dd18200.kasserver.com ([85.13.138.168]:58620) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LfWZn-0002hJ-HR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:42:43 -0500 Original-Received: from thursday (unknown [78.52.31.26]) by dd18200.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A632B1811EA54; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:42:43 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87r61bqeqk.fsf@bornier.net> (Jean Magnan de Bornier's message of "Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:42:27 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62661 Archived-At: Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > "Sven Bretfeld" wrote : > > | Hello >> > | I'm using Gnus to read emails via IMAP. Every 5 minutes or so Gnus loses > | the connection to the server. > > Otherwise, gnus needs to connect to your IMAP server only when > it checks mail, and that can be configured. And anyway gnus can work > without being connected to the internet and prepare messages to be sent > later. Have a look at the "Gnus unplugged" entry of the manual. gnus automatically re-connects when reading email, but I think it does not re-connect when a sent mail is to be stored in IMAP via Gcc: (gnus-outgoing-message-group). I think that might be a bug.