Re: Cleaning up rcirc

[Philip Kaludercic]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
>
> Hi Philip,
>
>> AFAICS, auto-reconnect is triggered when the process sentinel for a
>> server receives "deleted\n" but it's only tried once, right?  I think
>> it would make sense to run reconnect from a timer trying again every
>> `rcirc-reconnect-delay' seconds (probably with a minimum of 10 seconds
>> or so) because if something's wrong (broken connection) it might take
>> a bit longer before reconnect will work.
>
> I can report that with your new option and
>
>   (setq rcirc-reconnect-delay 10
>         rcirc-reconnect-attempts 10)
>
> rcirc successfully reconnected to libera.chat when they had to restart
> all services after a system upgrade.

Great!

> However, irc.gitter.im again broke at some point in time and did not
> reconnect.  In the server buffer, there's just
>
>   01:23 !!! irc.gitter.im: connection broken by remote peer (closed)
>
> A manual /reconnect worked fine.

Thank you for the report, I will look into this specific issue. Were
there any other messages about previous reconnection attempts?

> Bye,
> Tassilo

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        Philip Kaludercic