Re: Determining whether a TCP connection is up

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Weirdly enough, Gnus is the only one to show such issues, whereas I
>> can't recall ever having this problem in mutt nor seeing it in Evolution
>> or Thunderbird. And I don't believe in magic.
> My guess would be that they implement timeouts.  Which is the tedious
> work I had hoped not to have to do.

Another option is to kill connections after some time of inactivity,
rather than leave them open and suffer a timeout next time we need to
use it.


        Stefan