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On Monday, July 20 at 09:30 AM, quoth bill lam:
> I use imap server for gmail. When a read an email in the pager or
> composing a long new message and if that takes more than several
> minute, the connection to imap server become disconnected. It seems
> the connection to imap can only be maintained alive in the index page.
> Is there any workaround?
There's no quick answer to this, because it largely depends on why
you're being disconnected. For example, it could be that you have
imap_idle on, but a very high (or absurdly low) imap_keepalive (IDLE
may not be used for some reason while you're composing new messages).
What are your timeout- and imap-related settings?
> Another issue not sure related to imap or not. Suppose I mark read
> or delete some messages in the index and press $ to update. It
> seems updated, but if the connection to imap became broken before
> closing down mutt. The next time opening the mailbox index it still
> shows those messages as new or not deleted. How to tell mutt to
> really flush changes when press $. I use header and body cache if
> it matters.
That's supposed to work (and it works for me on my IMAP systems). If
it doesn't work for you, either it's taking too long to sync and mutt
isn't getting finished, or gmail isn't handling those commands
correctly (gmail is notorious for IMAP bugs).
~Kyle
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