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On 2 Oct 2001 dcohen@webmethods.com wrote:

>   signal(error ("Missing SEARCH response to a SEARCH command"))
>   error("Missing SEARCH response to a SEARCH command")
>
> Does anyone know why?  I assume this error message comes from the imap
> protocol, which I know little about.

The server is broken.  I think latest Oort works around it, please try.

> Also, when I created the group using "G m", this error prevents my
> *Group* buffer from ever showing me any of my groups.  I had to resort
> to removing the entry from my .newsrc.eld just to restart gnus.  Is
> there a better way to recover from this sort of error?  Now that I
> think of it, perhaps it fails completely only because I have
> (setq debug-on-error t) in my .emacs.

M-x gnus-no-server RET and remove the offending group(s)?