From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68873 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Landscheidt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: pop3.el and SSL Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:02:34 +0000 Organization: Message-ID: References: <87my6f7hi0.fsf@tiny.univ-orleans.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249430636 13111 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2009 00:03:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 00:03:56 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17293@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Aug 05 02:03:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MYTyv-0001LE-Ed for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:03:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MYTy6-0002x0-NW; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:02:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MYTy3-0002wP-NQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:02:55 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MYTy2-000073-B1 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:02:55 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MYTyb-0008GI-00 for ; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:03:29 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MYTxx-00056X-FC for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:02:49 +0000 Original-Received: from e177122186.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.177.122.186]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:02:49 +0000 Original-Received: from tim by e177122186.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:02:49 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e177122186.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fPK0ZxsWYe8VUWflh4rlqxJzsSQ= X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68873 Archived-At: Denys Duchier wrote: >> and then a question appears in the message buffer "Mail >> source error ([...]) (POP connexion failed). Continue?". No >> mail is ever downloaded, even though sometimes no error mes- >> sage pops up (caching of a failed connection?). > Could it be a timeout problem? We have a rather slow mail server and (a > long time ago, so I don't remember the details) I had to add the lines > below in ~/.gnus to get around timeout issues: > (setq pop3-read-timeout 2.0) > (setq nnheader-read-timeout 2.0) Wow, that solved it immediately. Thanks! Has anyone been able to use the default values with SSL servers? Tim