Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Brian Gregory Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.thunderbird Subject: Re: Thunderbird V139 loses contact with newsgroup server - cannot send or receive postings until TB is restarted Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 18:50:36 +0100 Organization: https://www.Brian-Gregory.me.uk/ Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <101s270$1hfvo$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net rSeXmOuMUbdzKSZwrOYF/w2TT50CMqi6de6DxPMifz0TaBf+w+ Cancel-Lock: sha1:uqFrWtjKYCvt5vWQIMUTF/9YGIE= sha256:nI5JqI6lL0yeha+mZaQJHMB4KyscYcIPy5XnvK1EqfE= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.thunderbird:16859 On 05/06/2025 17:49, Andy Burns wrote: > Brian Gregory wrote: > >> It seems like perhaps the connection times out (probably at the server >> end) and Thunderbird takes ages to realise and re-connect. > > Sounds exactly like 'my' problem, it knows it had a connection so > assumes it still has a connection ... >> I definitely had the same problem well before V139 came out, though >> maybe not so bad. > problem started after the introduction of the jscript implementation of > nntp client, for some time you could disable the jscript version and use > the old c++ implementation, then the fallback option got disabled. Maybe configuring Thunderbird to check for new messages every now and then would be enough to act as a kind of keep-alive for the connections? This may not suit everyone though, you may not want automatic download of message headers. I'm going to experiment. Screenshot of settings I'm testing first: https://www.brian-gregory.me.uk/GDL/ThunderbirdKeepAliveTest-or8.png -- Brian Gregory (in England).