Re: Mail source unreachable - continue yes/no?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Lars-Johan Liman <liman@cafax.se> writes:
>
>> My question: how is my answer (yes/no) used? (Which are the consequences
>> of responding yes or no, respectively?)
>
> Answering "no" should beep an error, say "Cannot get new mail" and then
> stop.  Hm...  but I see that the caller (in `nnmail-get-new-mail-1' just
> ignores that, and carries on as if nothing happened), so it doesn't
> matter whatever you respond.
>
> Hm...  I'm not sure how to fix this, or what the right fix would be
> here.  Anybody got an opinion?

I have an opinion :)

We create a few custom error symbols for backend errors, including mail
source failures, open-server failures, etc, and we put some
condition-cases handling those errors in `gnus-get-unread-articles'.
They collect the errors, continue with the next server, and at the end
of the process display a nice tidy message indicating which servers
failed to connect.

It's always been a bit annoying that an nntp connection failure hoses
the entire update process.

WDYT?

Eric