Ticket #2056 (new enhancement)
Attempt re-connect when idle mailbox connection closes
| Reported by: | gale@… | Owned by: | brendan |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 2.0 |
| Component: | IMAP | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | kuno@… |
Description (last modified by brendan) (diff)
As requested by Brendan Cully in PR#2049: In some environments - possibly dependent on particular IMAP server software, firewalls, routers, etc. - the connection to an IMAP mailbox can close when it remains idle for more than a few minutes. That can happen when the user returns to the mailbox after viewing a message for a long time.
Currently, mutt automatically closes the mailbox when this happens. This makes mutt nearly unusable in this type of IMAP/network environment.
The correct behavior is for mutt to attempt to reconnect to the mailbox. Mutt should only close the mailbox if the reconnect attempt - or several attempts - fails.
This seems to be standard behavior for most IMAP email clients.
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