Re: Problem starting nnimap unplugged

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

dsg@world.std.com (David S. Goldberg) writes:

> Gnus appeared to hang interminably long.  Eventually I gave up with
> a C-g.

A backtrace from here would help (`toggle-debug-on-quit', or perhaps
`toggle-debug-on-signal' is required).

> My guess is that nnimap is trying to do authentication even in
> unplugged mode.  When I got to the hotel and dialed up my company's
> modem pool, I was able to run gnus-unplugged with no hanging but
> nnimap did authenticate me to the server.  I tried this repeatedly;
> running gnus-unplugged while connected and not.  When not connected
> it hangs.  Is there a workaround?

Nnimap isn't called by Gnus at all in unplugged mode.  A guess would
be that somehow some of your groups contain a select method not
matching the agentized one, and thus making Gnus open another nnimap
server which would not be under the agent, and that this nnimap hangs
trying to talk to the server.

(Type `G e' on your nnimap groups in the server buffer, it should say
"nnimap:foo" or something similar.  The complete select method from
g-s-s-methods should also be ok, but `(nnimap "foo")' when your server
is really called `(nnimap "foo" (nnimap-foo something...))' is bad.)