From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Unpleasant catch 22
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:10:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zh5gf5sk.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <upknmfdv7vgt7hv6jvefeneijig3fvkutl@4ax.com>
Harry <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> I get an error when starting gnus and after it begins mail/news scan
> ... it ends in Authorization Rejected. So apparently a password not
> working for on reason or another. However there is no indication of
> which password. So normally I would start gnus and look in the server
> buffer. However starting gnus results in news scan and the same
> Authorization message... Gnus never finishes its startup.
>
> OK, I thought, I'll start` gnus-no-server' but I'll be darned if that
> doesn't go to a news scan too. ( Why would there be a scan if there
> are no servers?)
>
> (And by the way gnus is running with `debug on error' and `debug on
> quit' engaged)
>
> At least the ending during `gnus-no-server' startup is not about
> Authorization but appearantly, after a very lengthy (more than 15
> minutes) I finally hit Ctrl-g. No Backtrace is generated it simiply
> says `quit'
>
> I guess a couple of things are raised with this behavior but can
> someone at least tell me how to get a gnus interface without any
> news/mail scanning so I can do other chks?
Try `gnus-unplugged'? That might depend on what you've got agentized,
though.
Let us know what servers you have configured, and which require
authorization? And did this problem start after some change? After an
Emacs update? Out of the blue?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-23 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-23 23:03 Harry
2020-09-23 23:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2020-09-24 0:36 ` Harry
2020-09-24 1:01 ` 黃炳熙
2020-09-24 4:11 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-24 4:32 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-24 21:27 ` Harry Putnam
2020-09-25 1:26 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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