From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72393 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap ports and protocols Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:43:46 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87k4m2yqnh.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87r5gaiv6q.fsf@rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285940723 7452 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2010 13:45:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 13:45:23 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20766@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 01 15:45:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1fvG-0000Ol-Kd for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:45:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P1fvC-0004Q0-R7; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:45:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P1fvB-0004Pc-74 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:45:09 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P1fv7-0005Sn-8q for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:45:09 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P1fv6-0002vr-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:45:04 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1fv5-0000L5-Q0 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:45:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:45:03 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:45:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7nCzFxrIWN+I8SSLMh9RPWHocF4= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72393 Archived-At: On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:00:13 +1000 Daniel Pittman wrote: DP> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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