From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: imap error
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:22:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2sjploop2.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yovaoc0btdul.fsf@sampling.wsl.ch>
on Sat Jul 30 2011, Adrian Lanz <lanz-AT-wsl.ch> wrote:
> On Sam 30 Jul 2011 (22:47:47 +0200) Adrian Lanz writes:
>
>>
>> error in process filter: End of file during parsing
>>
>> and Gnus hangs [corrected wording and spelling, compared to the
>> original message]
>>
>
> I did (kind of) track down the problem with the help of the web
> interface to the imap mail server. The culprit was a mail message with
> two hqx encoded attachments. Still, Gnus should not hang for such a
> message (and destroy the marks of all my mail groups after escaping with
> C-g form the situation)?
Apparently `C-g' is expected to do arbitrary amounts of damage to your
Gnus state. See Lars' note in m3aabufp37.fsf@stories.gnus.org
(http://debbugs.gnu.org/db/90/9075.html)
I think this is a major problem.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-01 2:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-30 20:47 Adrian Lanz
2011-07-31 1:53 ` Adrian Lanz
2011-08-01 2:22 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2011-08-18 0:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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