From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79606 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: imap error Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:22:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312165474 20063 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2011 02:24:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 02:24:34 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27902@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 01 04:24:30 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QniBB-0004K5-N2 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:24:30 +0200 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 1QniA4-0006oz-7m; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:23:20 -0500 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 1QniA2-0006og-5d for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:23:18 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qni9o-0001zG-Vb for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:23:18 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qni9m-0000L6-1C for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:23:02 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qni9l-0003qk-38 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:23:01 +0200 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:23:01 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:23:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:69e1rijg72PIAwVmj17AbpPRnNU= X-Spam-Score: -5.6 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79606 Archived-At: on Sat Jul 30 2011, Adrian Lanz 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