Re: nnimap group customization lost after login failure?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> I'll try to reproduce it, I have one server which I typically C-g at
>> user/login during startup since I don't bother to acquire Kerberos
>> ticket in the proper realm first and nnimap falls back to plaintext
>> authentication, but I don't recall pressing either y or n after C-g.
>> Maybe I just C-g twice.
>
> There is another way to lose nnimap data:
>
> when Gnus queries the password, press ^G: All subscriptions are
> gone. When I re-add them, all customizations I had made before the ^G
> are lost. I don't know if they are lost when the server goes to denied
> state, or when I re-add the subscriptions, but this is a critical bug
> and should be fixed ASAP.
>
> Can anybody help?

I cannot reproduce it, I press ^G at the password prompt on one server
at almost every Gnus startup, and the groups still stay around.  Do
you have any customization that clean up zombie or unknown groups, or
something like that?  Or invoke some command that clean out
zombie/unknown groups?