Re: imap server not reopened after timeout

[Tim Landscheidt]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> wrote:

>> Can you try it without TLS?

> The very frequent dropped connections don't happen if I don't use TLS.
> To summarize:

> - they happen with TLS to port 143
> - they don't happen with a plain connection to port 143
> - they don't happen with a TLS connection to port 11143
> - they don't happen if I connect using
>     ssh jdc.math.uwo.ca dovecot --exec-mail imap

> Very strange.
> [...]

I have similar experience (so no statistics to prove it). Is
the integration of SSL/TLS into core Emacs on any priority
list? I would assume that the current implementation with
the external program(s) is rather fragile.

Tim