# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Retry or survive transient failures instead of exiting

## Open now

- 0 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- PR #137399: fix(email): retry transient IMAP fetch errors before surfacing failure

These items address cases where transient errors—adapter outages, IMAP fetch failures—cause premature shutdown or fatal errors rather than being retried or tolerated. Each proposes more resilient handling so processes stay alive and connections are preserved during temporary disruptions.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #118114. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #118114 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-118114`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.50`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #118080: Desktop-launched gateway: transient adapter failures trigger exit-75 self-shutdown, severing desktop WebSocket connections and losing in-flight assistant messages

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#118114: fix(gateway): stay alive on all-adapters-down when no service manager supervises**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/backend-spawn-env.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/guest-onboarding.ts`, `gateway/config.py`, `gateway/run_adapters.py`, `tests/gateway/test_config.py`, `tests/gateway/test_runner_fatal_adapter.py`
- **#133757: email: retry transient IMAP fetch errors before surfacing fatal (#80016)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#137399: fix(email): retry transient IMAP fetch errors before surfacing failure**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#133757`
  - files: `plugins/platforms/email/adapter.py`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #118114 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-30`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`