From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83224 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alberto Luaces Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Still pounding nnimap and odd gmail behavior Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 09:28:30 +0200 Message-ID: <87zjvkomzl.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> References: <87zjvmk4zh.fsf@newsguy.com> <87k3mq6um5.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <87a9nlv2i4.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369380624 18121 80.91.229.3 (24 May 2013 07:30:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 07:30:24 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31490@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 24 09:30:23 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UfmSF-0008Rq-7Z for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 24 May 2013 09:30:23 +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 1UfmQo-0004NU-Qp; Fri, 24 May 2013 02:28:54 -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 1UfmQn-0004NJ-1N for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 24 May 2013 02:28:53 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UfmQk-000514-Jo for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 24 May 2013 02:28:52 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UfmQi-0007h2-Lt for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 24 May 2013 09:28:48 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UfmQf-0007cl-TN for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 24 May 2013 09:28:45 +0200 Original-Received: from pcmecanismos.eps.cdf.udc.es ([193.144.52.105]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 May 2013 09:28:45 +0200 Original-Received: from aluaces by pcmecanismos.eps.cdf.udc.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 May 2013 09:28:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pcmecanismos.eps.cdf.udc.es User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:80dbEOIBooJBr6ZHj+zbqModtMw= X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83224 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > Alberto Luaces writes: > >> Harry Putnam writes: >> >>> Sorry to keep pounding on this same subject by being sneaky and >>> slipping the same question with different subject. >> >> [...] >> >> Sorry but I have to insist: what is the value of your gnus-select-method >> variable? Can you change to nnnil to see if it makes a difference? > > Very sorry, I posted another 'secondary select' (nnml) instead of your > requested 'select method'. Didn't read closely enough. Here it is.: > > (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.org")) > > Won't setting that to nnnil raise heck with my nntp groups? > > I'm reluctant to try that without setting up a full sandbox. > Something that would take a bit of time, unless you can confirm that > setting nnnil will not slaughter my existing setup. > > Not asking for a promise or guarantee...just confirmation that you've > done this when your setup contained many nntp groups and had been > using 'nntp' as the value of gnus-select-method for years. > Ok, it was just for making sure that the main select method was not set to anything strange, or another imap server. In the rest of the thread, it seems most likely that the problem is in your .authinfo definition, so I wouldn't try to change gnus-select-method unless it was the very last resource... -- Alberto