Re: Contacting server when Leaving a group

["Steven E. Harris" <seh@panix.com>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> When I try to leave the group with c, or `ZZ' or any of the commands
> that are used for leaving groups, gnus won't let me because it cannot
> contact the server.  I have to leave by changing buffers or some other
> ungnuslike way.

Yes, thank you for raising this question. I run into this problem with
my nnimap groups as well. One has to switch to the *Group* buffer, then
hit C-^ to reach the *Server* buffer, then try to close the offending
server, or maybe "deny" it, and kill an openssl process on the side, or
kill an associated process buffer, then reopen the server, then go back
to the *Group* buffer, find the group with the asterisk, reenter it,
and, finally, with baited breath, try to leave it again by pressing 'q'.

That's pain and embarrassment recast now as muscle memory.

-- 
Steven E. Harris