From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nnimap ports and protocols
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:43:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4m2yqnh.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5gaiv6q.fsf@rimspace.net>
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:00:13 +1000 Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> wrote:
DP> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> In the absence of user-specified ports and protocols, would it make sense
>> just to try the likely ones?
DP> You wouldn't be the first person to do it, but watch out for firewalls that
DP> eat the SYN packet silently: having Gnus hang for a significant timeout on the
DP> first connection attempt would suck. Doing that every time...
The nnimap stream parameter should be a list the user can customize,
attempted in order. The default can be what Lars listed.
Then Gnus can ask the user if they want to customize the nnimap stream
parameter when a connection fails.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-01 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-30 22:55 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 1:00 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-10-01 13:43 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-10-01 14:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-01 15:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 15:29 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-10-01 15:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 15:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-01 16:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 16:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-01 18:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 18:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-01 18:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 19:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-01 19:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 19:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-01 18:18 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
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