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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Copying articles to an nnimap group is failing.
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:38:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86sks1paww.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877i9fsubh.fsf@sparse.dyndns.org>

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:46:10 -0400 Jason Riedy <jason@acm.org> wrote: 

JR> I'm trying to copy articles from an nnmbox group to an nnimap group,
JR> and it fails so spectacularly that I need to restart gnus.  This is
JR> with the current CVS gnus.

JR> When I copy (B C) or move (B M) an article, I receive an error "writing
JR> to process: bad address, imap" (backtrace below).  After that, gnus is
JR> ready, but it hangs on any other access to that imap server.  If I kill
JR> the imapd manually, then gnus sometimes can keep working but not always.

JR> At first I thought I had found a reason to move from dovecot to courier,
JR> but the problem occurs with *both* servers.  I'm using
JR> imap-shell-program to invoke the imap server locally.[1]

Other than imap-shell-program, there's nothing unusual about your setup
and the error seems to happen outside of the IMAP protocol.  Can you
test without the shell program?  Can you try closing that server (kill
all the hidden imap buffers too) and reopen it?

Ted




      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-15 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-13 19:46 Jason Riedy
2008-09-15 17:38 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]

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