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:
>
>> 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?
>
> I am totally at a loss when debugging elisp. However, I've seen this
> happen when I press ^G when nnimap queries the user/login name for the
> IMAP server. This causes Gnus to ask me "...cannot connect, go offline?"
> If I press "y", everything's fine, if I press "n" however, the
> subscriptions and group settings are lost.

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.