Re: "no process" gnus bug when moving messages from nnml to imap folder

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Giorgos Keramidas <gkeramidas@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:33:57 -0800
> Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:00:45 -0800, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> > I've verified that I can reproduce the error, but I'm not quite sure
> > what the solution is.  The message is really corrupt (ending in a lot of
> > NUL characters), and Gmail just seems to close its connection.  Does
> > their IMAP server segfault?  I have no idea.
> >
> > Moving the same message to a Dovecot server works perfectly, so it seems
> > likely that it's just another shoddy Google product.
> >
> > Obviously the error message in this case would be better than a
> > backtrace, and I'll fix that at least.
> >
> > If anyone has any input on whether Gnus should try to, er, encode the
> > message in some way before pushing it to Gmail, I'm all ears.
> 
> I think there are two slightly related problems at work here.  One of
> them is that Gmail disconnects after we send NUL characters so we can't
> move the message and we throw a backtrace.

Don't some network-related functions return null characters if you try
to read from a socket after the connection is closed?