Re: nnimap against Cyrus imapd just stopped working

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>:

> Perhaps there is some kind of data corruption somewhere?  .newsrc.eld?
> Try C-k all nnimap group and resubscribe to them.

I have C-k'd all nnimap groups, but I still get the beep and the
following message, when starting up:

error in process filter: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil [4 times]

(this is emacs, not XEmacs, since I trashed my XEmacs Gnus yesterday,
so it's not quite the same).

This message is not output in relation to any nnimap server.  The full
context for this in the *Messages* buffer, is listed below.

But even with the message I get to the *Group* buffer.  However, this
only happens the first time I try starting up.  The second time I try
starting up, I get a beep and the following message after giving the
password for doohan, and everything freezes:

Buffer  *nnimap* doohan has no process

The full context for this in the *Messages* buffer can also be found
is below. 

Sigh!  Unless someone knows something clever, I guess this means I
have a *seriously* trashed .newsrc.eld file, and the only way out of
this is to create a new one from scratch?

Please tell me I'm wrong! :-/

The nnimap groups will have their tickmarks preserved, but all read
information for the USENET groups will be gone forever.

I really, truly, hate, putting all eggs in the .newsrc.eld basket. 

Oh well!


- Steinar


First full context:

IMAP password for myuser@localhost (using authenticator `login'): 
IMAP password for myuser@localhost (using authenticator `login'): .
IMAP password for myuser@localhost (using authenticator `login'): ..
IMAP password for myuser@localhost (using authenticator `login'): ...
IMAP password for myuser@localhost (using authenticator `login'): ........
imap: Authenticating to `localhost' using `login'...done
Opening nnimap server on doohan...done
Reading active file from cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu via nnimap...
Opening nnimap server on cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu...
imap: Connecting to cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu...
Waiting for response from cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu...done
imap: Loging in anonymously...
Opening nnimap server on cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu...done
Loading gnus-cache...
Loading gnus-cache...done
Opening nnimap server on doohan...
Opening nnimap server on doohan...done
nnimap: Listing subscribed mailboxes on doohan...
Loading utf7...
Loading utf7...done
nnimap: Listing subscribed mailboxes on doohan...done
Opening nnimap server on cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu...
Opening nnimap server on cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu...done
nnimap: Listing subscribed mailboxes on cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu...
nnimap: Listing subscribed mailboxes on cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu...done
No new newsgroups
Checking new news...
Opening nntp server on news.gnus.org...
Opening nntp server on news.gnus.org...done
error in process filter: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil [4 times]
Opening nndraft server...
Opening nndraft server...done
Opening nnml server...
Opening nnml server...done
nnml: Reading incoming mail from file...
Loading byte-opt...
Loading byte-opt...done
nnml: Reading incoming mail (no new mail)...done
Opening nntp server on news.gmane.org...
Opening nntp server on news.gmane.org...done
Checking new news...done
Loading view...
Loading view...done
Loading gnus-topic...
Loading gnus-topic...done


Second full context:

Reading /home/sb/.newsrc.eld...
Reading active file from news.chello.no via nntp...
Reading active file from doohan via nnimap...
Opening nnimap server on doohan...
imap: Connecting to localhost...
Waiting for response from localhost...done
imap: Connecting to localhost...done
imap: Authenticating to `localhost' using `login'...
imap: Plaintext authentication...
IMAP password for myuser@localhost (using authenticator `login'): 
IMAP password for myuser@localhost (using authenticator `login'): .
IMAP password for myuser@localhost (using authenticator `login'): ..
IMAP password for myuser@localhost (using authenticator `login'): ...
IMAP password for myuser@localhost (using authenticator `login'): ........
Buffer  *nnimap* doohan has no process