[PATCH] Re: Allow SSL connections to send keep-alive messages

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:49:02PM +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> From: Gábor Melis <mega at retes.hu>
> 
> This seems to prevent mysterious hangs with SSL imap servers (especially
> gmail?) and does not harm in any case. So let us enable keep-alive
> messages for ssl connections.
> Our thread pool should be made more robust against closed SSL
> connections (which do not always seem to raise Exceptions), and not
> deadlock while waiting for resources or data that will never arrive.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian at SSpaeth.de>
> Signed-off-by: Gábor Melis <mega at retes.hu>

Thanks. Squashed this in:

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diff --git a/Changelog.draft.rst b/Changelog.draft.rst
index 44b4a87..8addd4f 100644
--- a/Changelog.draft.rst
+++ b/Changelog.draft.rst
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ Changes
 Bug Fixes
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+* Allow SSL connections to send keep-alive messages.
+
 
 Pending for the next major release
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Nicolas Sebrecht