Re: (file-error "writing to process" "bad address" #<process imap>) when Gcc-ing a group

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>> If there's nothing to see, the rawlog utility should tell you what
>> happens before the connection gets closed.
>
> See http://www.tsdh.de/~heimdall/dovecot.rawlog.tar.gz for zipped rawlog
> directory.  I deleted all files in there and then sent the big mail, so
> no irrelevant stuff is included.
>
> In one file you can see the APPEND, then comes the message header and
> body, followed by the base64 encoded attachment, or better part of it.
> Then there's a NOOP and that's it.

I tried it again at home over my slow DSL line, and now the exact same
thing happens here. I enabled all logs and used tcpdump to record the
traffic to the IMAP server, but to no avail. The imap-log doesn't help
since the buffer which is sent to the IMAP server is simply included
there before process-send-region is called.

I have no idea if this is a problem with Dovecot or maybe a bug in
process-send-region or in send-region (I don't see how any other Gnus or
Emacs code could be involved in this). It'd be interesting to know if
the problem also occurs in Emacs 22. Maybe I have time over the weekend
to test this further...

-David