From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53591 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: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 02:56:45 +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 1059613688 9649 80.91.224.249 (31 Jul 2003 01:08:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2135@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jul 31 03:08:06 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 19i1vK-0002VV-00 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 03:08:06 +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 19i1uI-0005RM-00; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:07:02 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19i1u9-0005RE-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:06:53 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 78033 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2003 01:06:53 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 78028 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2003 01:06:52 -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; 31 Jul 2003 01:06:52 -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 h6V16jgW026705 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 03:06:46 +0200 Original-To: Matthias Andree Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030731:ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de:2201e30d5bf79023 X-Hashcash: 0:030731:ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de:2201e30d5bf79023 X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030731:ding@gnus.org:bc7ac55c1ddfe6fb X-Hashcash: 0:030731:ding@gnus.org:bc7ac55c1ddfe6fb In-Reply-To: (Matthias Andree's message of "Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:46:31 +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:53591 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53591 Matthias Andree writes: > Simon Josefsson 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?