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bug#16026: Gnus shouldn't use old connections
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
bug#16026: Gnus shouldn't use old connections |
Date: |
Wed, 04 Dec 2013 11:04:52 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 11:12:20 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:
>>> Gnus should consider a connection as dead if it has been idle for more
>>> than some timeout value (e.g. 5 minutes). This bites me every day when
>>> I wake up my computer: if I just hit `g' to refresh the *Group* buffer,
>>> it *always* hangs (I guess it would timeout but only after a long wait,
>>> like 2h). Instead, I have to go to *Server*, close each server, go back
>>> to *Group* and then hit `g'.
>> Weird. I do the same as you, or almost [1], and don't have that problem.
SM> Of course, the occurrence of my particular problem depends on various
SM> factors, such as whether you get the same IP address when you wake up,
SM> whether you're in the same network when you wake up, whether you're
SM> behind a NAT, how long the NAT router remembers connections, whether the
SM> NAT router's own IP has changed, ...
In the Gnus mailing list we discussed an easy solution (just close all
server connections before `g') but providing that as a user-level
defcustom feels like giving up. See
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80262/focus=83843
I suggested waiting for Lars' opinion.
Ted