Re: POP3 fragile?

[Mike Woolley <mike-remove-me@ariel.co.uk>]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> Do you press C-g during download?
>
> In my case, the TCP connection hung (because IP connectivity went
> away) and I had to press C-g.

This has happened to me a few times whilst using my dialup at home. I
haven't lost mail (yet) though. Usually what happens is that I get the
interrupted mails again, as they weren't deleted from the server the
first time...

> In my case, it's spinning in a tight loop around the select() call,
> and no data is processed.

This also happens to me quite regularly on my permanent connection in
the office, where I have Gnus get new mail every 5 minutes. A couple
of times a week I find it's hung and I can't C-g out of it. I have to
kill the process with Task Manager (I'm using Windows 2K) to get out
of it. Gnus 5.8 and Emacs 20.x also exhibited this behaviour, although
it seems to happen more frequently since I switched to Emacs 21.

Unfortunately, I haven't got very far in working out why it's
happening though...

Cheers,
Mike