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Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Using gnus somewhat painful?
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Jim Crossley |
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Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Using gnus somewhat painful? |
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Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:23:32 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
You're not alone. I've been using Gnus for years, and for me only the
most recent update (to 5.10.7) has resulted in this...
Gregory Novak <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
> - Gnus doesn't seem good about either maintaining or restarting the
> connection to the IMAP server. Many times I have to quit Gnus and
> restart. Sometimes this seems to cause emacs to hang forever and I
> have to kill it.
Oddly enough, I use gnus from two different machines, each pointed to
the same IMAP server, and only one of them misbehaves as you state.
That one has another IMAP backend and a bunch of splitting rules, so
I've been chalking it up to some sort of race condition.
Regardless, it's a *NEW* bug. I've used the same config with older
versions without issue. I just haven't had time to debug it yet.
[...]
> - I haven't been able to instruct the agent to just download all my
> messages and be done with it. I want it to maintain a local mirror
> of what's on the IMAP server. It gets confused, so that some
> messages appear in the Summary buffer but aren't on the IMAP
> server--when I try to view them, I get error messages like "Can't
> view message 1234!" These messages also can't be deleted. Yet the
> agent insists that they're there. The only thing that seems to help
> is clearing the Agent cache directory.
All due respect, but you're kinda swimming upstream with this one. I
wouldn't try to use Gnus as an IMAP mirroring system. Would a POP
backend make more sense as a means to "just download all my messages
and be done with it"?
> - The agent gets confused about flags. This may be an honest-to-god
> bug, which I've discussed on the gnus mailing list
I don't experience this.
[...]
Good luck. Sorry about the lack of help. All I can offer is sympathy
and sometimes that helps. :-)
Jim