Re: possible imap.el bug

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

"Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, jas@extundo.com wrote:
>
>> Many functions in imap.el either take a buffer argument (and switch to
>> that buffer), or assume it is in the correct buffer.  You could try to
>> track down where it is called, to see if the Gnus move code somehow
>> end up using it from the wrong buffer.
>
> Simon,
>
> I think I found the problem, the nnimap server buffer alist cleanup in
> close-server was just doing a delq to remove the server, which didn't
> work because a) strings are not necessarily eq, and b) the list was an
> association list so each element was never eq to the server name.  Now
> it iterates correctly, I think - I tested it for myself and it works
> great, and it's in CVS.  Only nnimap.el was changed.
>
> Let me know if there's problems.  I wanted to commit ASAP because it's
> an important bug fix.  It should probably go into the 5.10 branch too,
> if you approve of course.  Please look and see what you think.  I'm
> cc-ing ding again in case anyone else has comments.

It looks fine.  I wonder why it hasn't been discovered before.
Perhaps it actually will solve other hard-to-debug bug reports.

Thanks.