Recent Gnus versions' failures (Emacs 21.3.1)

Recent Gnus versions' failures (Emacs 21.3.1)

[Matthias Andree]

Hi,

I have some troubles with the 2004-05-16 and later Gnus versions.

This is severe, with workaround:
1- On May 16th, sasl was enabled. It tried to log into my Dovecot
   0.99.10.4 and failed. Upon investigation with tethereal, I figured
   Gnus would send AUTHENTICATE "PLAIN" \0user\0password
   when it should have base64-encoded the conversation like this:

   < * OK dovecot ready.
   > a001 CAPABILITY
   < * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=DIGEST-MD5
   < a001 OK Capability completed.
   > a002 AUTHENTICATE "PLAIN"
   < +
   > AHVzZXIAc2VjcmV0
   < a002 OK Logged in.
   ...

Workaround: (nnimap-authenticator login)

Obviously, the base64 encoded string is not my real password. Go figure.
:-P


This is a showstopper:
2- On May 18th (today), I tried upgrading to the recent version, which is
   totally unusable for me on Emacs 21.3.1 for some part lacks to define
   equalp. I'm back to 2004-05-15 now as I'm writing this.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function equalp)
  equalp("merlin.emma.line.org" "merlin.emma.line.org")
  message-idna-to-ascii-rhs-1("From")
  message-idna-to-ascii-rhs()
  message-generate-headers((From Date (optional . In-Reply-To) Message-ID (optional . User-Agent) (X-Draft-From lambda nil (gnus-inews-make-draft-meta-information "nnml+private:gnus" ...)) (optional . References) From))
  message-setup-1(((To . "ding@gnus.org") (Subject . "")) nil nil)
  message-setup(((To . "ding@gnus.org") (Subject . "")) nil nil)
  message-mail("ding@gnus.org")
  gnus-post-news(post "nnml+private:gnus")
  gnus-summary-post-news(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus-summary-post-news)

I cannot send the mail or save a draft.

The backtrace above was generated by pressing the "a" key in the Gnus
group summary, which is bound to gnus-summary-post-news (no surprise
here).

-- 
Matthias Andree

Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95

Re: Recent Gnus versions' failures (Emacs 21.3.1)

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> I have some troubles with the 2004-05-16 and later Gnus versions.
>
> This is severe, with workaround:
> 1- On May 16th, sasl was enabled.

This was fixed yesterday...

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function equalp)

Oops.  Been writing too much Common Lisp lately.

Fixed now.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Recent Gnus versions' failures (Emacs 21.3.1)

[Matthias Andree]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
>
>> I have some troubles with the 2004-05-16 and later Gnus versions.
>>
>> This is severe, with workaround:
>> 1- On May 16th, sasl was enabled.
>
> This was fixed yesterday...

"Fixed" is a bit bold here, "Comment out sasl."
is what you wrote into the ChangeLog.

FWIW, AUTHENTICATE "PLAIN" forgot to base64 encode the data and seemed
fine otherwise.

>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function equalp)
>
> Oops.  Been writing too much Common Lisp lately.
>
> Fixed now.

Thank you.

-- 
Matthias Andree

Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95

Re: Recent Gnus versions' failures (Emacs 21.3.1)

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> "Fixed" is a bit bold here, "Comment out sasl."  is what you wrote
> into the ChangeLog.

You say potato, I say tomato. 

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen