Re: gnus hangs at startup when trying to read imap groups

[hobbes@poukram.net (Rémi Letot)]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> hobbes@poukram.net (Rémi Letot):
>
>>> So it's inflooping while opening the server?  What's in the
>>> "*nnimap server ...*" buffer after you `C-g'?
>
>> lots of lines with "LIST oneofmyimapfolders", and it stops right in
>> the middle of one of the lines.
>
> I'm just guessing here: could it be something that it takes as a control
> character, eg. EOF, and then aborts the stream?

The folder name where it stops is .../fournisseurs/avocat, and it stops
right in the middle of avocat, so I don't think it could be a control
character right there (but I'm not a network guru, so I could be
wrong). But see below.

> Have you tried sniffing the same connection with wireshark, or a
> different package sniffing tool, to see what actually goes on the wire?

The connection is TLS encrypted, so I don't think it's possible to sniff
it. And turning off the encryption to see if it works better is not
something that I am willing to do.

I think that it's possible to tunnel the actual network connection
inside ssh, and execute imapd on the server like any shell process. I'll
read the docs and see if I can try this. But reading docs means some
time needs to be found :-)

Note that I'm not even subscribed to that group in gnus, so there is
nothing that I could do to bypass that problem (except renaming the imap
folder with icedove, which I'll try if gnus+ssh doesn't work and/or there
is no other idea to try)

Thanks,
-- 
Rémi