From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28244 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gunnar Evermann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: sending to aol via smtp hangs gnus Date: 14 Dec 1999 20:32:41 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <8766y12rh2.fsf@eng.cam.ac.uk> References: <5b902xv5gg.fsf@giga.cs.rochester.edu> <5bogbttp6i.fsf@giga.cs.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165127 28884 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:52:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:52:07 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA18414 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:56:28 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB02025; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:55:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:55:45 -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 OAA10832 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:55:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from puce.csi.cam.ac.uk (exim@puce.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.40]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA18395 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:55:12 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from line73.slip.csx.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.99.173] helo=casablanca ident=mail) by puce.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11xyyU-0005y2-00 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 20:55:10 +0000 Original-Received: from gunnar by casablanca with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 11xyyO-00008N-00; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 20:55:04 +0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Laura Conrad's message of "14 Dec 1999 14:58:40 -0500" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) Original-Lines: 36 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28244 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28244 Laura Conrad writes: > I take it back that I can reproduce the problem at will. But the two > times I could reproduce it, it stopped in the same place. I think when it always stops in Fopen_network_stream_internal() we can pretty much rule out a Gnus bug. How long did you wait before killing XEmacs? > On previous versions of gnus, I would often get a message back saying > that there was a problem connecting to SMTP. This wasn't happening > this morning; our system manager says there were some overloads on taz > this morning that were leading to 30 second connection times. > > I really think something might have happened to smtp mail in the CVS > since last week. > > I'm sure it's true there's something screwed up about the smtp mail > server, but this isn't a very graceful way of dealing with it. yes, I agree. > I believe you if you say the problem might not be in gnus, but as far > as I know, the only thing that's changed since last week is the CVS > version of gnus. well, maybe your mail server wasn't broken/overloaded last week? what OS are you running? It might even be an OS bug. It's not entirely unheard of, that an OS doesn't gracefully handle flaky networks/servers. Gunnar (trying hard to blame somebody else, before it's suggested that this is an XEmacs bug -- which it very well might be :-)