From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53409 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap group customization lost after login failure? Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 04:37:29 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1058064422 9570 80.91.224.249 (13 Jul 2003 02:47:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 02:47:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1953@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jul 13 04:47:00 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19bWtA-0002To-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 04:47:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19bWtu-0008F9-00; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:47:46 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19bWtq-0008F4-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:47:42 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 57026 invoked by alias); 13 Jul 2003 02:47:42 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 57021 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2003 02:47:41 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 13 Jul 2003 02:47:41 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6D2lTkU005555 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 04:47:30 +0200 Original-To: Matthias Andree Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030713:ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de:dbd7c37131815345 X-Hashcash: 0:030713:ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de:dbd7c37131815345 X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030713:ding@gnus.org:687c43918c5a9a62 X-Hashcash: 0:030713:ding@gnus.org:687c43918c5a9a62 In-Reply-To: (Matthias Andree's message of "Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:11:09 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53409 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53409 Matthias Andree writes: > Hi, > > I am Gnus using with three IMAP servers currently, defined in > gnus-secondary-select-methods. > > On login failure (^G being one of them), I seem to lose all group > customizations unless I tell Gnus to switch to "offline" mode (I don't > know the exact circumstances when Gnus offers this option and asks me), > so the next time, Gnus will ask me whether I want to subscribe to the > groups (listing them in the minibuffer), and all options like Posting > Styles (to set the address) or the To- or List addresses seem to be > lost. > > Have I misconfigured Gnus or is there a bug? I'd think that data for a > server must not be touched or removed when I can't connect and I tell > Gnus "don't go offline". Apparently Gnus thinks the groups no longer > exist in this case "cannot connect, don't go offline". This seem to be a bug, if it happens easily (C-g can cause data corruption by design, but rarely does in practice). I have never seen this, but I have a few nnimap servers that I ssh tunnel, but rarely bother to set up the ssh tunnel for before starting Gnus. Hm, could you debug it further? Or come up with a simple way to reproduce it?