IMAP closing connection after inactivity

[Richard G Riley]

I have the same problem as the article I link and reproduce below. Is
there a way to get Gnus to keep an IMAP session open without using a
daemon to check for all new messages regularly?

http://osdir.com/ml/emacs.gnus.user/2006-02/msg00133.html

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| Subject:      Gnus closing imap connection
| List-id:      "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet 
newsreader \(in English\)" <info-gnus-english.gnu.org>
| 
| My IMAP connection closes and Gnus does not reopen it. I have to go to
| the "servers buffer" and do "O" to reopen. Then in a while it closes
| again.
| 
| In the " *nnimap* localhost" buffer I see this:
| 
| ===
| * BYE Disconnected for inactivity.^M
| - Peer has closed the GNUTLS connection
| 
| Process imap finished
| ===
| 
| Any idea how to fix it?
| 
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| vedm
| 
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| 
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