From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73265 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew J Cosgriff Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap ignoring server options? Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:07:57 +1100 Organization: I'm trying Message-ID: <87lj5vtbt6.fsf@gira.fitness2live.net.au> References: <87ocb1frcu.fsf@gira.fitness2live.net.au> <87ocb0ctqy.fsf@gira.fitness2live.net.au> <87k4ll67u2.fsf@gira.fitness2live.net.au> <87fww8tktr.fsf@gira.fitness2live.net.au> <87sk0432pb.fsf@gira.fitness2live.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287438358 30842 80.91.229.12 (18 Oct 2010 21:45:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:45:58 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21637@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Oct 18 23:45:55 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 1P7xWl-0007JD-5q for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:45:55 +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 1P7xWe-0001F2-UE; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:45:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P7xWc-0001El-Uw for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:45:46 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P7xWb-0006Li-JI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:45:46 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P7xWa-0006eh-00 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:45:44 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P7xWY-0007F2-Eb for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:45:42 +0200 Original-Received: from mail.fitness2live.com.au ([203.206.162.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:45:42 +0200 Original-Received: from ajc by mail.fitness2live.com.au with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:45:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fitness2live.com.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:U7Di6lnSKKAJppzyu3BsLurz3T0= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73265 Archived-At: lmi wrote : > Andrew J Cosgriff writes: > >> aha! it's still passing "imap" instead of translating it into 143. > > It's not supposed to -- `open-network-stream' (etc.) should do the > translation (based on /etc/services and the like). Well, I guess that's what's not working. 143 works. imap doesn't. I can swap between them and reproduce this. ah, here we go. if I change back to imap and quit, then start gnus, I get this message: Warning: Unable to open server nnimap+myhostname due to: Wrong type argument: stringp, imap ...oh, I get it. trying something slightly different, I see that "imap" (with quotes) works. it's meant to work non-quoted though, right? -- Andrew J Cosgriff store at room temperature