diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4782c17..23ed23a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 .settings/
 target/
 bin/
+.idea/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/TelegramAPI.iml b/TelegramAPI.iml
deleted file mode 100644
index 597cd8e..0000000
--- a/TelegramAPI.iml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<module org.jetbrains.idea.maven.project.MavenProjectsManager.isMavenModule="true" type="JAVA_MODULE" version="4">
-  <component name="NewModuleRootManager" LANGUAGE_LEVEL="JDK_1_8">
-    <output url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target/classes" />
-    <output-test url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target/test-classes" />
-    <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$">
-      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/main/java" isTestSource="false" />
-      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/main/resources" type="java-resource" />
-      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target" />
-    </content>
-    <orderEntry type="inheritedJdk" />
-    <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
-  </component>
-</module>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/mrbesen/telegram/TelegramAPI.java b/src/main/java/de/mrbesen/telegram/TelegramAPI.java
index ca36023..eb4a993 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/mrbesen/telegram/TelegramAPI.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/mrbesen/telegram/TelegramAPI.java
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ import de.mrbesen.telegram.objects.TUser.Status;
 public class TelegramAPI implements Runnable {
 
 	private static final String API_URL = "https://api.telegram.org/bot";
-	private static final String TOKENREGEX = "^\\d{4,9}:[\\w-]{12,64}$";
+	private static final String TOKENREGEX = "^\\d{4,10}:[\\w-]{12,64}$";
 	private static final int TELEGRAMFILESIZELIMIT = 20000000;//20MB filesize https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sending-files
 	public static final String APIVERSION = "3.8";//May 18, 2019
 
@@ -329,6 +329,10 @@ public class TelegramAPI implements Runnable {
 			processUpdates(request("getUpdates", "offset=" + msg_offset + "&timeout=" + (longpolling ? updateInterval : 1), false));
 		} catch (IOException e) {
 			log.log("error getting updates.", e);
+
+			try {
+				Thread.sleep(100);
+			} catch(InterruptedException ignored) {}
 		}
 	}