Re: Small Practical Usenet-Related Question - Keep Thunderbird From Dropping Out

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Small Practical Usenet-Related Question - Keep Thunderbird From Dropping Out
Date	2026-04-16 11:01 +0200
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On 2026-04-16 02:22, c186282 wrote:
> On 4/15/26 05:00, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2026-04-15 01:23, c186282 wrote:
>>> On 4/14/26 11:41, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 wrote:
>>>> W dniu 14.04.2026 o 14:51, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 pisze:
>>>>> W dniu 14.03.2026 o 22:03, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 pisze:
>>>>>> W dniu 14.03.2026 o 08:38, c186282 pisze:
>>>>>>> This is TBird + GigaNews.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Has anyone come across an obscure setting that will
>>>>>>> increase TBird's ability to tolerate short connection
>>>>>>> outages ? Might be seconds, might be minutes.
>>>>>
>>>>> I solve this issue! This was not news.giganews.com issue. When I 
>>>>> switch from Kubuntu 20.04 to other contemporary distro (with recent 
>>>>> Thunderbird), and problem gone!
>>>>
>>>> What I mean was: I solve this issue! This was not news.giganews.com 
>>>> problem. When I switch from Kubuntu 20.04 to other, but contemporary 
>>>> Linux distro (with recent Thunderbird), then problem was gone! And 
>>>> Thunderbird works as expected whole night and day.
>>>
>>>
>>>    I've been using another distro (MX) all along. In my case
>>>    the origin of the problem is a 5-G router and lousy signal
>>>    strength. It's all I can get in my area alas. So, at times
>>>    it drops out entirely for seconds, sometimes minutes. TBird
>>>    does not like this, maybe can't send a keep-alive signal
>>>    to the usenet provider ? Anyway, it drops out and I have to
>>>    restart TBird, some days over and over and over.
>>>
>>>    But other days are pretty OK. Weird.
>>>
>>>    Found ONE suggestion for a timeout that could be adjusted,
>>>    and did so, but it really didn't seem to help things.
>>
>> In that situation, maybe you should use leafnode.
> 
> 
>    Nah ... don't want to set up a server, just
>    access someone else's server. The other Linux
>    newsreaders ... um ......

Leafnode is not a server per se, but a proxy.

Originally, it was used with modem connections. You connected the 
computer, it downloaded the groups you wanted, uploaded new messages, 
and then you could severe the connection.

Mail clients connect to it as connection to a normal server would be. 
When you subscribe to a group, it is initially empty, with just a 
message saying that the group will be downloaded the next time you 
connect. It happens automatically.

You just put a cronjob to connect every 7 minutes or so.

The configuration allows automatic connection to several upstream servers.


In your case, TB would connect to what emulates a local server, so the 
connection never breaks.


>    Next time my connection gets really bad, I had
>    this idea of just writing a few-line ping script
>    that independently helps keep the server connection
>    alive.
> 


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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  Re: Small Practical Usenet-Related Question - Keep Thunderbird From Dropping Out Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-03-14 09:52 +0000
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