crashes after being out of desktop

[Richard van der Hoff]

In message <a6b34bf648.tom at compton.compton.nu>
          Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> In message <3afc45f648.rav21 at gromit.mk-net.demon.co.uk>
>           Richard van der Hoff <rav21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I notice that RemoteNB still crashes after a period out of the desktop, so
> > that RemoteNB does not get polled, and the IMAP connection times out.
> 
> It is nothing to do with the connection timing out unless you're
> talking to a server which violates the spec. I am very careful to
> make sure that I ping the server frequently enough to prevent
> timeouts.

I think we may be at cross-purposes here: I'm talking about if, say,
you've pressed F12 so that the usual Wimp_Poll thing isn't happening.  I'm
not sure that you can do what you suggest under those circumstances
without resident code (ie in the RMA)?

I guess it's my own fault in some ways for doing something in command-line
mode and then forgetting about it.  Still the current behaviour seems a
bit nasty :-(

> Your problems are (as far as I know) all down to you using Pine
> to access the mailbox at the same time as RemoteNB. The UW imapd
> using the default unix mailbox format does not like this (it's
> not imapd's fault really, it's the naff unix mailbox format).

Right, I've been having a bit of a play, and certainly the problem appears
unrelated to Pine, since it still occurs even when I don't use Pine.  It
may be helpful if I point out that my mailbox now lives on my own linux
box, although still with the UW imapd, since that's what comes with RH.

> > I realise that it's a difficulty, but it seems a bit messy for it just
> > to die; would it not be possible (Tom) to detect that the connection
> > has been lost and reopen it?
> 
> The latest versions have code in them specifically to avoid the
> problems you were having and this is the first I've heard that
> it isn't working.

> ...

Indeed, it seems I can now use Pine (and any other IMAP client for that
matter) to my heart's content :-).  As I say, it's fine until I leave the
desktop.  I'll send you the crashdump file if you think it may be helpful?
 

> In general it is not possible just to reopen the connection as you would
> have to be able to restore the exact state of the previous connection
> which can be difficult if you're in the middle of a sequence of
> commands.

Hmm;  yes, I see.  That does make it rather hard.

Cheers,

Richard

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