From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nnimap hanging when checking mail
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 00:07:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilur8cwcbfh.fsf@extundo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <asobkj$5le$1@main.gmane.org> ("Nevin Kapur"'s message of "Thu, 05 Dec 2002 15:06:43 -0500")
"Nevin Kapur" <nevin@jhu.edu> writes:
> Yesterday I moved a rather large hierarchy under IMAP control and every
> since then 5 times out 6, when nnimap checks mail, it makes the
> connection, then says
>
> nnimap: Checking mailboxes...
>
> and then just hangs. I've waited for hours but it never returns. In X,
> pressing C-g does nothing and the only remedy is to kill the xemacs
> process. In the terminal, hitting C-g a few times suspends (?) XEmacs,
> following which it prompts me to Auto-save, then offers to Abort and
> finally dumps core with the attached backtrace.
>
> The trace always seems to hang in process-send-string and the hang is
> peculiar to XEmacs, I think because with indentical configuration, I don't
> have this problem with Emacs.
>
> Would someone please advise the next course of action? I am totally
> crippled right now without use of my beloved Gnus at home.
I think reporting it to the XEmacs people, like you did, is the best
way. It is difficult to debug or solve non-elisp problems in elisp.
Meanwhile, maybe trying Emacs is a workaround. Frobbing `imap-log'
and looking in *imap-log* might give hints if you want to edebug
{nni,}imap.el further.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-05 20:06 Nevin Kapur
2002-12-05 23:07 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2002-12-06 13:32 ` Nevin Kapur
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