On Monday, 2 June 2014 14:31:37 CEST, Steve Dodd wrote:
My original issue though was with Gmail randomly closing the connection with "system error", in which case a reconnect would be nice..
I don't think we can automatically detect whether it is a good thing to reconnect or not.
What I'm especially worried is a situation where the remote server is just stubborn and refuses to work anymore, rejecting our connection attempts all the time. If Trojita just reocnnected, then we would be wasting the energy for nothing. But perhaps the exponential backoff would help here -- I don't know.
Maybe a checkbox in the server settings, "reconnect on server errors", off by default?
In general, I dislike adding checkboxes for these options. You're interested in that feature so you would trigger that checkbox, but what about all the other users? Isn't there something better which would magically work for all of them, and without manual tweaks? How is their situation going to be different from yours, after all?
With kind regards, Jan -- Trojitá, a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client -- http://trojita.flaska.net/
