From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72372 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap ports and protocols Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:00:13 +1000 Message-ID: <87r5gaiv6q.fsf@rimspace.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285894903 29755 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2010 01:01:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 01:01:43 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20745@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 01 03:01:42 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 1P1U0L-0001pT-Rv for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:01:42 +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 1P1U0B-0000oI-AB; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:01:31 -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 1P1U08-0000nw-TJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:01:28 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P1U02-0005P8-Rx for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:01:26 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P1U02-0008EB-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:01:22 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1Tzx-0001ji-Gb for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:01:17 +0200 Original-Received: from sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au ([203.214.67.82]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:01:17 +0200 Original-Received: from daniel by sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:01:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Nnw31zUPvKvPTkz0y+2X9yn/rqE= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72372 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > In the absence of user-specified ports and protocols, would it make sense > just to try the likely ones? You wouldn't be the first person to do it, but watch out for firewalls that eat the SYN packet silently: having Gnus hang for a significant timeout on the first connection attempt would suck. Doing that every time... Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ daniel@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons