From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54864 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [nnimap] Is `A T' supposed to work with nnimap backend Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 04:54:04 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069325708 29520 80.91.224.253 (20 Nov 2003 10:55:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3404@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Nov 20 11:55:05 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMmSn-0007kD-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:55:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AMmS3-0007xu-00; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 04:54:19 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AMmRq-0007xm-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 04:54:07 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEDCE3A0026 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 04:54:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMmRo-0002b0-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:54:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMmRn-0002as-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:54:03 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMmRn-0007dY-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:54:03 +0100 Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+Bdr4YtWdl6/ts3NwI1ktq0hXw0= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54864 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54864 Simon Josefsson writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> Simon Josefsson writes: >> >>> No. What happens? What does *imap-log* contain (after toggling >>> imap-log)? >> >> How does one toggle an imap-log. >> An `s' search on entire gnus inof shows no hits on imap-log. > > I added the following, comments appreciated. Good addition Simon. What you posted was probably not the final version but I've added a few spelling/grammer changes as noted. The substance seems good as it stands. > Debugging IMAP > -------------- > > IMAP is a complex protocol, at least compared to NNTP or POP3. Perhaps > for that reason, implementation bugs are not unlikely. If you > encounter an odd behaviour, chances are that either the server or Gnus > is buggy. If you are familiar with network protocols in general, you > will probably be able to extract some clues from reading the protocol > dump of the exchanges between Gnus and the server. Even if you are not > familiar with network protocols, including the protocol exchange in > IMAP-related bug reports may be critical for solving the problem. > > Because this protocol dump generate potentially large buffers, it is ^^^^^^^^ generates > not enabled by default. You can enable it by toggling `imap-log' as > follows: > > (setq imap-log t) > > This instruct the `imap.el' package to dump sent to the server,and ^^^^^^^^ ^ instructs everthing > everything received from the server. The output is stored in the > buffer `*imap-log*'. Look for error messages, which sometimes are > tagged with the keyword `BAD'.