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Bug 91195 - Mail checker times out under load
Mail checker times out under load
Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE
Product: gnome-applets
Classification: Other
Component: mailcheck
unspecified
Other Linux
: High major
: ---
Assigned To: gnome-applets Maintainers
gnome-applets Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-08-19 20:20 UTC by Havoc Pennington
Modified: 2009-08-15 18:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.1/2.2

Attachments
Proposed patch (4.57 KB, patch)
2003-05-24 15:41 UTC, Christian Marillat 		none Details | Review

Description Havoc Pennington 2002-08-19 20:20:24 UTC 
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71558

sometimes if IMAP is responding too slowly, you get an error dialog from
the mail check applet.
Comment 1 Jeremy Nickurak 2002-10-19 20:50:25 UTC 
This has been mentioned in passing on #83775 (which is actually a
request for more control on that dialog)... I get this problem
regularly. Seems like the mailcheck applet times out frequently in
cases where ordinary IMAP clients have no trouble.
Comment 2 Jeremy Nickurak 2003-02-17 03:53:15 UTC 
raising priority for "particularly high visibility"
Comment 3 Mark McLoughlin 2003-03-07 00:54:31 UTC 
Moving mailcheck bugs to gnome-applets
Comment 4 Christian Marillat 2003-05-24 15:40:27 UTC 
I've received a patch for this bug :

http://bugs.debian.org/194535
Comment 5 Christian Marillat 2003-05-24 15:41:30 UTC 
Created attachment 16800 [details] [review]
Proposed patch
Comment 6 Kevin Vandersloot 2003-05-29 01:51:48 UTC 
I changed the timeout (which was 5 seconds) to now be two minutes. I
hope this is reasonable for most normal operations.

It would be nice if someone could check this who had reproducable
problems before. Marking as NEEDINFO since I'm not sure that this will
guarantee that a user won't have problems.
Comment 7 Bart Vanhaute 2003-05-29 09:55:13 UTC 
The patch submitted by Christian has actually also been submitted as
part of a different bug report (see Bug #113679) . To me, a temporary
failure of mailcheck should not immediately warn the user. The patch
will allow 4 failures before warning the user. So, if the mail server
is overloaded at the time of a check, it will indeed fail, but without
annoying the user.
Comment 8 Kevin Vandersloot 2003-05-29 15:56:53 UTC 
In cvs the dialog is not popped up anymore, so the user isn't annoyed.
Comment 9 Kjartan Maraas 2003-07-02 23:14:38 UTC 
Does this still need to be NEEDINFO?
Comment 10 Andrew Sobala 2003-07-12 18:40:24 UTC 
Closing this since it sounds like it's fixed.