Re: Calling for testers: scratch/gnus-decoded branch

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:
>
>> Eric writes:
>>
>>> Okay, that's useful information. Do you have `gnus-save-newsrc-file' set
>>> to t, and is this group saved in that file? If so, is the group name
>>> encoded or decoded?
>>
>> ,----[ C-h v gnus-save-newsrc-file RET ]
>> | gnus-save-newsrc-file is a variable defined in ‘gnus-start.el’.
>> | Its value is t
>> | 
>> | Documentation:
>> | Non-nil means that Gnus will save the ‘.newsrc’ file.
>> | Gnus always saves its own startup file, which is called
>> | ".newsrc.eld".  The file called ".newsrc" is in a format that can
>> | be readily understood by other newsreaders.  If you don’t plan on
>> | using other newsreaders, set this variable to nil to save some time on
>> | exit.
>> | 
>> | You can customize this variable.
>> `----
>>
>> I didn't know I had that set to t, but I have.
>>
>> The file is empty, though?!
>
> It's only used if your gnus-select-method is an nntp server, and then
> only for that server. I thought I remembered that your nntp server was a
> secondary one, but I wanted to make sure.
>
>> $ ls -l .newsrc
>>   -rw-r--r-- 1 asjo asjo 0 May 30  2015 .newsrc
>>
>>> (I'm trying to test with feedbase.org but Gnus never succeeds in
>>> connecting to it).
>>
>> (Are you using nntps? There's no nntp-support on feedbase.org, only
>> nntps. I'm using this in my gnus-secondary-select-methods:
>>
>>         (nntp "fb"
>>               (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-tls-stream) ; feedbase does not do STARTTLS (yet?)
>>               (nntp-port-number 563) ; nntps
>>               (nntp-address "feedbase.org"))
>
> That's what I was trying to use! Hmm, maybe I was just being too
> impatient (and my internet connection sucks here).

Yup, it was both of those. I've managed to connect and test (and confirm
the bug), and just pushed a fix.