Re: How To Switch To Another IMAP Server?

[Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com>]

>>>>> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

    >> 3) I still have references to the killed truman mailboxes in my
    >>    .newsrc.eld.
    >> Is this a problem?

    SJ> Shouldn't be, but you can probably remove them by running some
    SJ> command to kill "zombies" or "killed" groups, or something like that.

    >> 4) I currently have entries for both truman and hamilton in my
    >> gnus-secondary-select-methods.  When I start gnus, it logs on to both
    >> servers, prompting me for passwords for both.  Great!  If I remove
    >> truman, I crap out with a lisp error.  Before I delve into this and
    >> give you a better report, is there something obvious I missed that
    >> would cause a problem, perhaps one of the items mentioned above?

    SJ> No, it is a bug.  Can you post the entire backtrace?

Well, I've killed all my truman mailboxes and, after I remove truman as a
gnus-secondary-select-methods, I cannot start gnus successfully. Here is the
backtrace:

Signaling: (error "Trying to require a method that doesn't exist")
  signal(error ("Trying to require a method that doesn't exist"))
  cerror("Trying to require a method that doesn't exist")
  apply(cerror "Trying to require a method that doesn't exist")
  error("Trying to require a method that doesn't exist")
  gnus-server-opened((nil ""))
  gnus-activate-group("nnimap+truman:INBOX/Linux/RedHat/Watch" scan)
  gnus-get-unread-articles(nil)
  gnus-setup-news(nil nil nil)
  byte-code("..." [gnus-slave gnus-current-startup-file gnus-startup-file did-connect level dont-connect gnus-group-quit gnus-run-hooks gnus-startup-hook gnus-make-newsrc-file gnus-dribble-read-file bbb-login add-hook gnus-summary-mode-hook gnus-grouplens-mode gnus-setup-news nil gnus-setup-news-hook gnus-start-draft-setup gnus-group-list-groups gnus-group-first-unread-group gnus-configure-windows group gnus-group-set-mode-line gnus-started-hook gnus-use-dribble-file gnus-use-grouplens] 4)
  gnus-1(nil nil nil)
  gnus(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus)
  command-execute(gnus t)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

As you can see, it is trying to activate a truman-based group.  I looked at
my .newsrc.eld file and my truman-based groups are currently listed in
gnus-newsrc-alist and gnus-topic-alist.

So where do I go from here?  I need to kill truman since the server is about
to be taken off-line!

Thanks!

...Jake


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