From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53452 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Woolley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: POP3 fragile? Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:15:03 +0100 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <8765m5eykf.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87k7akgk8b.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1058286940 21028 80.91.224.249 (15 Jul 2003 16:35:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:35:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1997@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jul 15 18:35:38 2003 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 19cSmA-0005Sd-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:35:38 +0200 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 19cSmY-0003R9-00; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:36:02 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19cPeb-0002xU-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:15:37 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 92546 invoked by alias); 15 Jul 2003 13:15:37 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 92541 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2003 13:15:37 -0000 Original-Received: from ip125.ariel.co.uk (HELO server30.ariel.co.uk) (195.112.22.125) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 15 Jul 2003 13:15:37 -0000 Original-Received: from mike.ariel.co.uk ([192.168.0.26]) by server30.ariel.co.uk with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id MX13X25Z; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:19:11 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: zo(d<$!]|W?eo}y<{;HoizqV&U?7R$0qo5~D*B#d;,TPAY0iB 5+2ka2zR3R&I"H-CBVq.jykC$]rfsY-fb%I0$=/3(yTesXxy#g In-Reply-To: <87k7akgk8b.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (Florian Weimer's message of "Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:25:24 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53452 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53452 Florian Weimer 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