Evolution and Gmail

[Nifty Fedora Mitch]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:36:29AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 17:14 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:43:22PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 23:49 +0000, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > > > PS "Works" is a relative term here. "Mostly works" is closer to the
> > > > > truth because Evo occasionally loses contact with Gmail and has to
.......
> > I often see gmail connections die even with 'mutt' and have started to
> > sync my mail box prior to a reply.  Often after a well considered email
> > (=lots of time editing) I find that my connection to the mailbox is gone.
> 
> You may find this interesting:
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.mutt/browse_thread/thread/d24f6f01cc5a3817
> 
> Executive summary: for Mutt, reduce imap_keepalive to under 10 minutes.
> For Evolution I don't know what the equivalent is, but I've set the
> "check for new mail" timeout to 5 minutes to see what happens.

Thanks the mutt param change seems to help. 
  so many knobs and so little time....  ;-)





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