Re: IMAP problem: Failed to move huge message

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 03/14/07 09:48:00, Albrecht Dre? wrote:
> > Balsa gives up if it cannot send anything to the server for a half a
>
> > minute.
>
> Good hint - I increased the timeout to two minutes, and checked the
> process in Wireshark.  Exchange needs 41 seconds (!!!) to acknowledge
> the transfer of this ~2MByte message.
>
> Maybe we should make the IMAP timeout either configurable, or use a
> "smart guess", like base_timeout + xfer_size * stretch, or something
> like that?  I know Exchange is *really* crap, but unfortunately I'm
> forced to use it at work...

I had a similar problem with an imap server that responded very slow to  
search requests. Current SVN source will pop up a question box whether  
to abort an operation that takes too long time... Is that an acceptable  
solution? It probably needs some polishing but the basic idea works.

Pawel