"Too many notifications" failure mode

"Too many notifications" failure mode

[Adam Sjøgren]

I just had a little mishap on my home-server, spamming myself with ~1000
cron emails in rapid succession.

I press g in Gnus, and the emails are fetched, but then I get this in
the Echo area:

  D-Bus error: "Exceeded maximum number of notifications"

And the count of emails in my nnml:cron group continues to be shown as
0.

The *Messages* buffer contains:

  [...]
  Wrote /home/asjo/Mail/cron/23982
  Wrote /home/asjo/Mail/cron/23983
  Wrote /home/asjo/Mail/cron/23984
  Wrote /home/asjo/Mail/cron/23985
  nnml: Reading incoming mail (104 new)...done
  Reading active file via nnml...done
  Reading active file from archive via nnml...
  Opening nnml server on archive...done
  Reading active file from archive via nnml...done
  Reading active file via nndraft...done
  byte-code: D-Bus error: "Exceeded maximum number of notifications"

I would expect Gnus to show the error from D-Bus, and then continue
merrily along, but instead I can't read the new emails.

Shouldn't the failure of notification allow the rest of the Gnus
activities to proceed as usual?


  Best regards,

    Adam

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 "Soon we'll have spent a whole month at sea,                 Adam Sjøgren
  splitting atoms for no apparent reason"                asjo@koldfront.dk

Re: "Too many notifications" failure mode

[Michael Albinus]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

Hi,

> I would expect Gnus to show the error from D-Bus, and then continue
> merrily along, but instead I can't read the new emails.
>
> Shouldn't the failure of notification allow the rest of the Gnus
> activities to proceed as usual?

I've committed a patch to Emacs trunk, which protects
`notifications-notify' with `with-demoted-errors'. This should result in
the expected behaviour.

>   Best regards,
>
>     Adam

Best regards, Michael.

Re: "Too many notifications" failure mode

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 23:06:39 +0100, Michael wrote:

>> Shouldn't the failure of notification allow the rest of the Gnus
>> activities to proceed as usual?

> I've committed a patch to Emacs trunk, which protects
> `notifications-notify' with `with-demoted-errors'. This should result in
> the expected behaviour.

Great! I will take it out for a spin in due course.


  Thanks!

    Adam

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 "Remember, Robert, in life anything can happen."             Adam Sjøgren
                                                         asjo@koldfront.dk