Neomutt: imap: Mutt should handle dropped connections/routing problems gracefully. It should be able to transparently reconnect.

[toogley]

The TODO file says:

[ -- socket -- ]

• Smarter connection code. Mutt should handle dropped connections/routing
  problems gracefully. It should be able to transparently reconnect. This
  is facilitated by the next item.

• Interruptible socket calls, preferably without having to abort the
  connection. For example large downloads could be chunked.

are those still relevant?

[4nd3r]

are those still relevant?

yes! also with sleep/resume.

1. but machine to sleep
2. resume
3. mutt frozen
4. kill mutt or wait for 5-10 minutes

[tkhai]

I have this issue in one of the places, where I use neomutt. It closes connection every 5 minutes, and every time my mailbox becomes closed. It does not reconnect and remains in such state untill I enter mailbox manually via "c".
Please, fix this painful problem

[flatcap]

The IMAP code is flaky, but it may be a while before we risk making significant changes.
I'm going to close this as "unfixable" for now. Sorry.

[l29ah]

@tkhai the problem you've described got fixed recently, but it's still not ideal.

[tkhai]

@l29ah, thanks for your notification (and fixing, I assume :)).