Bug 269 - IMAP connection hang the whole application when network down
Summary: IMAP connection hang the whole application when network down
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Sylpheed-Claws (GTK1)
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Folders/IMAP (show other bugs)
Version: 0.9.4
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 major
Assignee: sylpheed-claws-users
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Depends on:
Blocks: 704
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Reported: 2003-08-09 23:10 UTC by Juraj Ziegler
Modified: 2005-06-02 05:08 UTC (History)
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Description Juraj Ziegler 2003-08-09 23:10:16 UTC 
When new mail is checked on IMAP accounts (both SSL and non-SSL) and the remote
host is unreachable, sylpheed-claws freezes on the read() syscall until the host
becomes availabe again. That makes sylpheed-claws totaly unusable (except for
hand-editing config files) when new mail is checked on start-up and new-mail is
automatically checked for the unreachable host.

This is not good, it should timeout. And maybe ignore that host until 'Get' is
explicitly requested for it.

I have not checked how POP accounts are affected. 

Remote systems with IMAP servers are Linux and FBSD 4.8. I have no info on what
IMAP software runs there.
Comment 1 Paul 2003-08-11 08:49:17 UTC 
Try setting this option to an acceptable value:
"Configuration->Common Preferences->Advanced->Socket I/O timeout"
Comment 2 Paul 2003-08-11 09:17:17 UTC 
Apologies. What I meant was:
"Configuration->Common Preferences->Other->Socket I/O timeout"
Comment 3 Colin Leroy 2005-06-02 05:08:11 UTC 
1.9.11cvs32 should make that much better.
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