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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mail source unreachable - continue yes/no?
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:33:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874k9l88h2.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmsaxbsj.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:50:36 -0700")

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> I put plain old calls to `error' inside `nnimap-request-scan', and that
> also derailed the "g" update process. So whatever handling there once
> was either is not around this particular piece of code, or else it might
> have gone away at some point.

Yeah, perhaps it went missing at some point.

> Are you likely to recall further how this once worked? :) I can start
> sketching out some custom errors, otherwise.

I'm not sure about anything.  I do recall (in the olden days) getting a
humongous appended error message from all the backends if the network
went down or something, though.

Custom errors sound good, though.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no


  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-13 11:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-11  6:07 Lars-Johan Liman
2021-10-12 12:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-12 16:50   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-12 16:57     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-12 17:49       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-12 17:56         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-12 18:18           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-12 18:25             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-12 19:50               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-13 11:33                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-10-14  5:03                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-14 11:22                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-14 18:31                       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-15 10:42                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-15 17:43                           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-12 16:57   ` Lars-Johan Liman
2021-10-14 17:39     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-15 10:48       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-15 17:52         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-18  6:42           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-18 15:03             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-19 13:42               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-19 15:15                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-21 23:36               ` Eric Abrahamsen

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