[Bug 77862] kio_imap processes hang when connection status changes

[David Faure]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77862


David Faure <faure at kde.org> changed:

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--- Comment #85 from David Faure <faure kde org>  2010-10-22 00:43:04 ---
Dropping the connection as soon as the IP address goes away is not a good
solution. In particular, it would make kmail lose the connection more often
when using it in a flaky (unstable) network connection, for instance airport
wifi. The way it works with TCP 
connections is that if you get the same IP address again later, the
communication will resume. But if kmail drops the connection immediately when
losing the IP, then it behaves 
worse than currently, in such a situation...
I talked to the Qt networking people today, and they agreed.

How about just
1) making the timeout shorter (60s instead of 600s or responseTimeout() which
defaults to 600 anyway) (at least with responseTimeout() the users can adjust
the timeout in a config file, but the default of 10 minutes makes this
inpractical for this issue, I think), and:
2) keeping the error handling part of your patch

Does this already make things better?

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