Re: Hung threads when writing a new message/reply

[James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com>]

At Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:36:07 +0100,
Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:49 +0800, "James Harkins" <jamshark70@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Known issue? If not, I can fiddle with the Emacs debugger but I'm not
> > familiar with it and it would have to wait until sometime later when I
> > have time (really busy these days).
> >
> > GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0)
> > Wanderlust/2.14.0.10
> 
> Before you start debugging, maybe you should try latest
> apel/flim/semi/wl versions from cvs or git.
> 
> Wl-2.14.0 is quite old (2005?) and I have no idea what patches are
> included in the debian package. But there is also wl-beta on
> Debian/Ubuntu.

I think this is ISP or firewall related. I was using wl-beta at home all weekend, leaving it open for hours at a time, and I never saw any crashes or hangs.

Now, I'm on the same laptop but in my office at school. I wrote a message (outside of wl -- I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking for routine typing), then switched back to wl and executed some "dispose" marks. Emacs has been frozen that way for about 10-15 minutes.

It seems this only happens after leaving wl alone for some minutes, so I suspect that the school's firewall detects that the connection to the IMAP server has been idle for too long, and kills it. Then wl tries to use the now-dead connection and gets stuck.

It's not a big deal -- I know it's stable on the home connection, which is where I do most of my work. At school, I can use the Gmail web interface instead.

Is there something like a "keep alive" configuration variable?

Thanks,
James


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