From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68260 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: (file-error "writing to process" "bad address" #) when Gcc-ing a group Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:58:05 +0100 Message-ID: References: <873aenr2gk.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87tz73plyd.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234202323 18076 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2009 17:58:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:58:43 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16700@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Feb 09 18:59:58 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LWaQF-0003uW-UR for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:59:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LWaOf-0004pd-1Q; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:58:17 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LWaOd-0004pH-Kz for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:58:15 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LWaOa-0007fG-Qb for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:58:15 -0600 Original-Received: from m61s02.vlinux.de ([83.151.21.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LWaOu-0000Zs-00 for ; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:58:32 +0100 Original-Received: from [134.76.4.218] (helo=Macintosh.local) by m61s02.vlinux.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LWaQ3-0003cc-UB for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:59:44 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87tz73plyd.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:19:22 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.90 (darwin) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68260 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > David Engster writes: >>> The local IMAP server hosting the Gcc-ed group is Dovecot v1.1.11. I'm >>> not sure if part of the problem is on its side, but at least I can say >>> that it has no problems when offlineimap synces big messages from my >>> IMAP accounts to the local dovecot. >>> >>> When the Gcc-upload fails, dovecot logs a line like this: >>> >>> dovecot: Feb 09 17:14:51 Info: IMAP(uni): \ >>> Disconnected in APPEND bytes=1992955/1144675 >>> >>> Could somebody please help me with this? >> >> I'm using Dovecot (on a remote server, though) and don't have any >> problems appending large messages using Gnus. > > Define large. It works for me till some specific size, but let's say > with attachments > 3 MiB it always fails. I just tried a 5MB attachment. Does it also sometimes fail for smaller attachments? I just wonder if this is a size or timing issue. >> Are you using the Gnus demon, e.g. for regularly checking your INBOX? >> Could it be that the demon changes the mailbox while the APPEND is >> still running? > > No, I only run offlineimap in a cron job, but that shouldn't cause any > harm, right? The above error message from Dovecot says that the connection was closed during the APPEND. Offlineimap should not be able to do that (I stress "should"). > >> If you cannot use IMAP debugging in Emacs, > > I can. See the logs I posted in that old message. Ah, OK. But could you enable imap-log instead of imap-debug? I always find the latter a bit hard to parse... If there's nothing to see, the rawlog utility should tell you what happens before the connection gets closed. -David