Re: sending to aol via smtp hangs gnus

[Laura Conrad <lconrad@gamesville.com>]

>>>>> "SZ" == Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

>>>>> "LC" == Laura Conrad <lconrad@gamesville.com> writes:
    LC> I can reproduce this at will.  When I attempt to email an aol
    LC> customer via smtpmail with a cvs gnus from yesterday
    LC> afternoon, gnus hangs and cannot be interrupted by ^G.

    LC> Here's the lisp backtrace:

    LC> Lisp backtrace follows:

    LC> open-network-stream-internal("SMTP" #<buffer "*trace of SMTP
    LC> session to taz*"> "taz" 25) # bind (service host buffer name)
    LC> open-network-stream("SMTP" #<buffer "*trace of SMTP session to
    LC> taz*"> "taz" 25)

    SZ> [...]

    SZ> It seems your machine can not connect with taz.

I just started writing a long list of proofs that I can connect with
taz, and decided that maybe there had been an aberration in the
network which caused the problem, and went away in time for all the
other things to work.  This turned out to be the case; I have now sent 
mail from gnus to the subscriber I had trouble with earlier this
morning.

I don't think that changes the fact that it's a bug if a temporary
failure to connect to the smtp host hangs gnus so that it can't be
interrupted, and continues to hang after the connection is restored.
This was in fact the case; while the hang was occurring, I was able to 
execute "telnet taz smtp" successfully.


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