Re: nntp and nnimap disconnect and take forever when emacs is idle

Bob Newell writes:

>> Does anyone else also experience this, when they’ve left their Emacs
>> or just gnus idle for sometime, it disconnects from the server,
>
> What I do is run a 'keepalive' every 5 minutes to quickly poke
> the server and maintain the connection.  You can do this with
> a run-with-timer although I prefer to do it outside of emacs
> with a bash script.

I do something along those lines with the following in my gnus.el (but
it could be anywhere else):

(gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-news 15 t)

-- 
Alberto