[MlMt] Auto-retry after fail?

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 13 Feb 2025, at 1:22, Robert Wall wrote:

> I’m on Fastmail, and multiple times in the last 24 hours MailMate stops checking mail because Fastmail returns “BAD internal server error” status. I understand that it’s an error, and it *can’t* check mail. But it will sit like that for hours on end until I manually click one of the options.
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> I run it on a headless Mac Mini to do a bunch of mail filtering, so that’s not optimal.
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> Is there any configuration switch that will tell MailMate to automatically “Retry”? Or automatically retry after a given period of time?

I'm afraid not. Technically, it's possible to implement a timeout, but it would of course be much better if these error messages did not block at all. They slowly creeped into the code because of workaround after workaround needed for all kinds of server issues/behavior. It was never the intended design.

The best I can offer you for now is to add a (temporary) hardcoded hidden setting to add a timeout to a specific warning. Send me the specific wording of the warning (off list) and I'll look into it.

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Benny
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