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Jack Vinson <JackVinson@yahoo.com> writes:
> What happens when the first mail source on the list can't get to its mail?  
> 
> I have two mail sources (POP), and it looks like Gnus runs into trouble if
> one or the other of them get "stuck."  Recently, I watched gnus get stuck
> in loop, looking for input from the POP service.  It had had accepted my
> username, but it never got beyond that.  I think the server was stuck.
> 
> Does Gnus have code to check for timeouts of multiple mail sources?  It
> does check for at least one mail source.  I've had it tell me that one of
> them had timed out.

I usually have pretty good luck just hitting C-g and having it move on
to the next mail/news source.