Subject: Pine needs a "connect/disconnect" key (or sequence) for IMAP

From: Kenneth Crudup <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:52:41 -0800 (PST)

If you're still taking suggestions:

It would be nice to not have to shut Pine down every time I have to
switch providers (work, home, Starbucks, etc.) on my laptop so that
before I hibernate the box I don't have to kill the running Pine (if
I left it running when it came back all the default routes, etc would
be different, so it couldn't find its way back w/o suffering thru that
"... break connection to server?" stuff.

If there were something, even buried in the "M"ain menu or in the
"O"ther toolbar menu that could let me disconnect an open IMAP session
(I can use other methods to reconnect, so an explicit "reconnect" isn't
strictly necessary), it would be a wonderful addition.

What say ye?

	-Kenny

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From: Bruce Cohen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:34:32 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time)

Second the motion!

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From: Lynne Bivona <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:08:20 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

Hi Kenny,

We're not clear why this would be preferable to just quitting Pine.  Could
you elaborate a little?

Thanks!
Lynne Bivona

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From: Kenneth Crudup <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:15:47 -0800 (PST)

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Lynne Bivona wrote:

> We're not clear why this would be preferable to just quitting Pine.

'Cause that's a PITA? 'Cause I have to re-log-in both to get my IMAP
.pinerc, and then again when I want to send mail or look at my address
book (they work out to be different FQDNs, so Pine needs a different
name for each)? 'Cause nothing else on my laptop (i.e., my browser)
has to be restarted 'just 'cause I've either shut down or changed
providers? 'Cause shutting down pine means if I've looked at attachments
they have to be reloaded again if I view 'em instead of being already
in-core?

All I want is a key that does whatever happens when y'all find out you
can't talk to the IMAP server after <X> amount of time and hands me the
"... break connection to server?" query and I answer with "Y". Almost
every time I suspend my laptop, I come up in a different network en-
vironment, so the "default route" changes.

	-Kenny