On 03/14/07 09:48:00, Albrecht Dre? wrote: > > Balsa gives up if it cannot send anything to the server for a half a > > > minute. > > Good hint - I increased the timeout to two minutes, and checked the > process in Wireshark. Exchange needs 41 seconds (!!!) to acknowledge > the transfer of this ~2MByte message. > > Maybe we should make the IMAP timeout either configurable, or use a > "smart guess", like base_timeout + xfer_size * stretch, or something > like that? I know Exchange is *really* crap, but unfortunately I'm > forced to use it at work...
I had a similar problem with an imap server that responded very slow to search requests. Current SVN source will pop up a question box whether to abort an operation that takes too long time... Is that an acceptable solution? It probably needs some polishing but the basic idea works. Pawel _______________________________________________ balsa-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list
