From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68259 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: (file-error "writing to process" "bad address" #) when Gcc-ing a group Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:19:22 +0100 Message-ID: <87tz73plyd.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <873aenr2gk.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234199987 8944 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2009 17:19:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:19:47 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16699=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Feb 09 18:21:02 2009 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 4.50) id 1LWZoQ-0005V2-Jd for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:20:50 +0100 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 1LWZn6-0004dV-As for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:19:28 -0600 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 1LWZn5-0004dO-EC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:19:27 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LWZn2-0007U3-Je for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:19:27 -0600 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LWZnM-0008Qc-00 for ; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:19:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66F33789AD36 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:19:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17555-08 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:19:22 +0100 (CET) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender vrfy tassilo@member.fsf.org Original-Received: from thinkpad.tsdh.de (dhcp177.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.71.177]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62BDD789AB06 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:19:22 +0100 (CET) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (David Engster's message of "Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:02:01 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de X-Spam-Score: -5.5 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68259 Archived-At: David Engster writes: Hi David, >> The local IMAP server hosting the Gcc-ed group is Dovecot v1.1.11. I'm >> not sure if part of the problem is on its side, but at least I can say >> that it has no problems when offlineimap synces big messages from my >> IMAP accounts to the local dovecot. >> >> When the Gcc-upload fails, dovecot logs a line like this: >> >> dovecot: Feb 09 17:14:51 Info: IMAP(uni): \ >> Disconnected in APPEND bytes=1992955/1144675 >> >> Could somebody please help me with this? > > I'm using Dovecot (on a remote server, though) and don't have any > problems appending large messages using Gnus. Define large. It works for me till some specific size, but let's say with attachments > 3 MiB it always fails. > Are you using the Gnus demon, e.g. for regularly checking your INBOX? > Could it be that the demon changes the mailbox while the APPEND is > still running? No, I only run offlineimap in a cron job, but that shouldn't cause any harm, right? > If you cannot use IMAP debugging in Emacs, I can. See the logs I posted in that old message. > you can use the Dovecot's "rawlog" utility: > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/Rawlog . Maybe that can shed some > light on the issue. I'll try that later this evening. Thanks for your help so far! Bye, Tassilo