Stephen Isard wrote in <[email protected]>: |> The best you can do is using IMAP cache, as you do. |> You can then `disconnect' / `connect' as you will, and it usually |> "pampers over" the problem. |> |> Other than that setting "set imap-keepalive=X" to install an alarm |> based trigger every X seconds often helps, too. |> Maybe 300 or even 120 for super picky wifi i have seen (if it |> helps at all). | |But why does the imap disconnection interfere with reading the temp file |saved by the external editor? S-nail hasn't crashed. It is still |running and able to respond to commands.
Pardon? You were `mailing or replying and got stuck in the editor and in the meantime the connection broke? The network thing uses alarm(2) to drive this mechanism ... At least until v15, when there will be a non-blocking loop with select(2) or poll(3). If i ever get there. Then this is a detached loop that runs like a daemon would. P.S.: and i am all for pamper because it picks up baby poo .) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
