From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/87285 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Faster/solider GMail connection? Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 12:11:59 -0700 Message-ID: References: <9862d9052dcf456991f95fab37762087@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com> <878tu8tenr.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475436179 28369 195.159.176.226 (2 Oct 2016 19:22:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 19:22:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2.50 (darwin) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M35505@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Oct 02 21:22:54 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bqmLX-0005rP-80 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 21:22:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1bqmKo-0002VS-SF; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 14:22:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1bqmKm-0002Ut-B0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 14:22:00 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bqmKl-0005kF-0k for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 14:22:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1bqmKi-0002Bh-LV for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 21:21:56 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bqmKP-000697-6b for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 21:21:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:JRjVYWnS9RyRPBHkfy2i59xUKqk= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:87285 Archived-At: on Sat Oct 01 2016, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Friday, 30 Sep 2016 at 18:32, Dave Abrahams wrote: >> Recently `G' in my *Group* buffer now takes a long time and sometimes >> appears to truly hang here: > > I don't know if my experience is relevant but I used to have significant > difficulties connecting to an Outlook exchange server while I had no > problems with gmail. What I did to fix it is set up my system to use a > different set of DNS servers. For some reason, my home ISP's default > servers had real problems with Microsoft's server addresses. > > I switched to the OpenDNS servers (https://www.opendns.com/) and > everything goes much more quickly now. I doubt this is a DNS issue since I'm frequently looking at Opening connection to imap.gmail.com...done in the message area while waiting. The fact that the “done” is there tells me that looking up the server isn't the bottleneck. -- -Dave