[Alpine-info] Folder Reopen Problems

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Georg Fuellen wrote:


:) At home I'm using a rather instable UMTS connection, and very often it 

:) happens that Alpine starts a frustrating '"Waited XX seconds for server 

:) reply. Still Waiting...'


The amount of time it takes Alpine to ask this questions depends on 
certain factors. As you can see from the message that Alpine displayed, 
Alpine communicated successfully with the server, but it is waiting for a 
reply. When this happens, Alpine is in listening mode, waiting to read the 
reply from the server. This could happen if the connection is slow, or if 
the server is slow (for example, you are performing a search in the 
server, and this takes a long time) or probably for other reasons.

In this case, what you need to do to minimize this delay is to take a look 
at the configuration options

TCP Read Warning Timeout 
TCP Query Timeout

If you set this to a small value, then for operations that take long to 
complete you will receive the prompt, even though there is nothing wrong 
with the connection. I set it to 20, and most times I wish I set it for 
something smaller, but don't want to be bothered by slow operations either 
(I had set it to 15, but due to this I had to revert to 20). Experiment 
and see what works for you.

The above options are available from the configuration screen, only after 
you enable

 [X]  Expose Hidden Config

I hope this helps to alleviate this inconvenience

-- 
Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/