From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27078 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Shenghuo ZHU Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: flaky pop server and "Mail source error" message Date: 18 Nov 1999 18:07:38 -0500 Organization: U of Rochester Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <5biu2zbdqd.fsf@giga.cs.rochester.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164168 22735 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:36:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:36:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA08519 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:08:22 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB08491; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:08:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:08:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA26172 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:08:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from cayuga.cs.rochester.edu (cayuga.cs.rochester.edu [192.5.53.209]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA08507 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:07:43 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from giga.cs.rochester.edu (giga.cs.rochester.edu [192.5.53.186]) by cayuga.cs.rochester.edu (8.9.3/Q) with ESMTP id SAA26579 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:07:39 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from zsh@localhost) by giga.cs.rochester.edu (8.9.1b+Sun/Q++) id SAA21038; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:07:39 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: ZSH X-Face: 'IF:e51ib'Qbl^(}l^&4-J`'P!@[4~O|&k#:@Gld#b/]oMq&`&FVY._3+b`mzp~Jeve~/#/ ERD!OTe<86UhyN=l`mrPY)M7_}`Ktt\K+58Z!hu7>qU,i.N7TotU[FYE(f1;}`g2xj!u*l`^&=Q!g{ *q|ddto|nkt"$r,K$[)"|6,elPH= GJ6Q In-Reply-To: John Palmieri's message of "18 Nov 1999 14:46:35 -0800" Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070099 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.99) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27078 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27078 >>>>> "John" == John Palmieri writes: John> Pterodactyl Gnus v0.99 John> GNU Emacs 20.4.2 (alphaev5-dec-osf4.0f, X toolkit) of Mon Oct 11 1999 on hilbert1 John> I get some mail through a pop server, but it's a bit flaky and seems John> to go down a lot. As a result, when I check for new mail, I often get John> the error message John> "Mail source error ((error -ERR mail storage services unavailable ... John> Continue? " John> At this point, I have to type "yes" or "no". I would like to skip John> this step (i.e., automatically answer "yes"). John> I think the error message seems to be generated by the function John> mail-source-fetch in mail-source.el. Do I need to rewrite this John> function to skip over this step, or is there some variable (say, John> something called gnus-ignore-mail-source-error) that I can set to do John> this? [...] I think vote for '(pop :ignore-error t). -- Shenghuo ZHU