Re: imap server not reopened after timeout

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:29:16 -0400 Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> wrote: 

DC> 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,

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

DC> On my imap server, I get log message like:

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

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

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

DC> Any suggestions for how to debug this?

Can you try it without TLS?

Also you can try sending periodic NOOPs (with `imap-ping-server' and
timers maybe?) and see if that keeps the connection alive.

Ted