From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48062 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nevin Kapur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap hanging when checking mail Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 08:32:34 -0500 Organization: Mathematical Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039181664 20057 80.91.224.249 (6 Dec 2002 13:34:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18KIcX-0005D5-00 for ; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 14:34:21 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18KIbF-0004DG-00; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 07:33:01 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 06 Dec 2002 07:33:51 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA22284 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 07:33:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 9301 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2002 13:32:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9296 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2002 13:32:37 -0000 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (80.91.224.249) by gnus.org with SMTP; 6 Dec 2002 13:32:37 -0000 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18KIan-00054n-00 for ; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 14:32:33 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18KIan-00054d-00 for ; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 14:32:33 +0100 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fermat.mts.jhu.edu Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039181553 17465 128.220.17.18 (6 Dec 2002 13:32:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:32:33 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mZr2hav1mJglUq/z3VMsxgKt3GA= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48062 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48062 Simon Josefsson writes: > "Nevin Kapur" writes: > >> Yesterday I moved a rather large hierarchy under IMAP control and every >> since then 5 times out 6, when nnimap checks mail, it makes the >> connection, then says >> >> nnimap: Checking mailboxes... >> >> and then just hangs. > I think reporting it to the XEmacs people, like you did, is the best > way. It is difficult to debug or solve non-elisp problems in elisp. > Meanwhile, maybe trying Emacs is a workaround. Frobbing `imap-log' > and looking in *imap-log* might give hints if you want to edebug > {nni,}imap.el further. Thanks for the advice. The problem with debugging is that when XEmacs hangs, there is nothing more I can seemingly do. I don't know how to recover the information in *imap-log* after XEmacs has hung. Hopefully some XEmacs developer will have some ideas... -Nevin