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by singularity2001 830 days ago
> the operation is now guaranteed to run to completion.

unless the backend breaks somehow (server changed ip/ssl/imap password...) in which case it will result in an endless useless retry loop?

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We can run it forever but it’s rarely useful. Usually, all operations have an associated expiration time so if it’s impossible to succeed it will eventually abort.