def listen_forever(
            self,
            timeout_ms: int = 30000,
            exception_handler: Callable[[Exception], None] = None,
            bad_sync_timeout: int = 5,
    ):
        """
        Keep listening for events forever.
        Args:
            timeout_ms: How long to poll the Home Server for before retrying.
            exception_handler: Optional exception handler function which can
                be used to handle exceptions in the caller thread.
            bad_sync_timeout: Base time to wait after an error before retrying.
                Will be increased according to exponential backoff.
        """
        _bad_sync_timeout = bad_sync_timeout
        self.should_listen = True
        while self.should_listen:
            try:
                # may be killed and raise exception from _handle_thread
                self._sync(timeout_ms)
                _bad_sync_timeout = bad_sync_timeout
            except MatrixRequestError as e:
                log.warning('A MatrixRequestError occured during sync.')
                if e.code >= 500:
                    log.warning(
                        'Problem occured serverside. Waiting',
                        wait_for=_bad_sync_timeout,
                    )
                    gevent.sleep(_bad_sync_timeout)
                    _bad_sync_timeout = min(_bad_sync_timeout * 2, self.bad_sync_timeout_limit)
                else:
                    raise
            except MatrixHttpLibError:
                log.exception('A MatrixHttpLibError occured during sync.')
                if self.should_listen:
                    gevent.sleep(_bad_sync_timeout)
                    _bad_sync_timeout = min(_bad_sync_timeout * 2, self.bad_sync_timeout_limit)
            except Exception as e:
                log.exception('Exception thrown during sync')
                if exception_handler is not None:
                    exception_handler(e)
                else:
                    raise
Keep listening for events forever.
        Args:
            timeout_ms: How long to poll the Home Server for before retrying.
            exception_handler: Optional exception handler function which can
                be used to handle exceptions in the caller thread.
            bad_sync_timeout: Base time to wait after an error before retrying.
                Will be increased according to exponential backoff.