Re: imap server not reopened after timeout

[Dan Christensen]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

> After not accessing the server for a while, if I try to enter a group,
> I get an error,

In addition, I'm very frequently getting dropped connections.  For
example, if I try to copy 20 articles from an nnfolder group to the
nnimap group, the operation almost always fails part-way through.

On my imap server, I get log message like:

jdc dovecot: IMAP(jdc): Disconnected in APPEND bytes=8118/10261

Gnus says things like "Peer disconnected" and shows some NOOP
messages from the server (dovecot sends those periodically).

I've now tried both starttls and gnutls-cli, and both have similar
problems.  My internet connection is quite solid, and I don't get
dropped connections with other types of network activity, so there
must be something wrong with my Gnus set-up or the set-up of my
dovecot server.  Setting imap-debug to t doesn't provide any additional
information.

Any suggestions for how to debug this?

Thanks,

Dan