reporting bug for gnus with pop3 function

reporting bug for gnus with pop3 function

[Xiaodong Xu]

I am using debian testing / emacs-snapshot-unicode / gnus.

When I updated my gnus with aptitude to version 5.11+v0.4.dfsg-1,
I found that it could not fetch mail from gmail by pop3.

The related part of my dot.gnus file is as the following,

(setq mail-sources
  '((pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
         :port 995
         :user "stid.smth"
         :connection ssl
         :leave t)))

and when I typed "M-x gnus", gnus first prompt to input password
for my gmail account. I typed it correctly but gnus did not make
any reponse. After one minute or two, message was shown in the
mini buffer of my emacs. It said "mail source '((pop ...))..
error" or something like that. Inspite of this, reading news and
sending mail by stmp was not affected.

If I switch back to gnus 5.10.6-1.NO.20051213-1, everything is
OK.

Anyone else met with the same thing as me? Or is there anything
that I should notice with the new version of gnus?

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Re: reporting bug for gnus with pop3 function

[Burton Samograd]

Xiaodong Xu <stid.smth@gmail.com> writes:

> I am using debian testing / emacs-snapshot-unicode / gnus.
>
> When I updated my gnus with aptitude to version 5.11+v0.4.dfsg-1,
> I found that it could not fetch mail from gmail by pop3.
>
> The related part of my dot.gnus file is as the following,
>
> (setq mail-sources
>   '((pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
>          :port 995
>          :user "stid.smth"
>          :connection ssl
>          :leave t)))
>
> and when I typed "M-x gnus", gnus first prompt to input password
> for my gmail account. I typed it correctly but gnus did not make
> any reponse. After one minute or two, message was shown in the
> mini buffer of my emacs. It said "mail source '((pop ...))..
> error" or something like that. Inspite of this, reading news and
> sending mail by stmp was not affected.
>
> If I switch back to gnus 5.10.6-1.NO.20051213-1, everything is
> OK.
>
> Anyone else met with the same thing as me? Or is there anything
> that I should notice with the new version of gnus?

I'm not positive, but to get pop over SSL you need an enhanced pop3.el
file for gnus, which I need for fetching my mail from gmail.  Try
looking at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusGmail; there's a
link in the 3rd paragraph to a site that contains an updated pop3
library with instructions on how to install it. 

Hope this helps.

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Re: reporting bug for gnus with pop3 function

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, May 11 2006, Burton Samograd wrote:

> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusGmail

,----[ http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusGmail ]
| – NOTE: you also need ssl.el, which doesn’t seem to come with the
|   current GNU CVS. I found it with a quick google search.
`----

What is "GNU CVS"?  `ssl.el' is obsolete:

,----[ gnus/contrib/README ]
| ssl.el
| 
|         Obsolete interface to OpenSSL.  Completely replaced by
|         lisp/tls.el, which supports both GnuTLS and OpenSSL.  This
|         file will be removed eventually.
`----

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Re: reporting bug for gnus with pop3 function

[Burton Samograd]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Thu, May 11 2006, Burton Samograd wrote:
>
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusGmail
>
> ,----[ http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusGmail ]
> | – NOTE: you also need ssl.el, which doesn’t seem to come with the
> |   current GNU CVS. I found it with a quick google search.
> `----
>
> What is "GNU CVS"?  `ssl.el' is obsolete:

Sorry, GNUS CVS.  I had to install the ssl.el package for some reason
to get the ssl funtions required by the pop3.el package.  I thought it
was odd, but didn't have time to figure it out, and installing the
ssl.el package made it work.  Just a hack, probably not correct, but
it works now.

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Re: reporting bug for gnus with pop3 function

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, May 12 2006, Burton Samograd wrote:

> Sorry, GNUS CVS.

You meant Gnus, not GNUS, see (info "(gnus)History").

> I had to install the ssl.el package for some reason to get the ssl
> funtions required by the pop3.el package.  I thought it was odd, but
> didn't have time to figure it out, and installing the ssl.el package
> made it work.  Just a hack, probably not correct, but it works now.

If this is bug in `tls.el' or in the T-gnus version (?) of `pop3.el',
you should report it instead of recommending obsoleted, unsupported
packages.

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: reporting bug for gnus with pop3 function

[Xiaodong Xu]

Burton Samograd <kruhft@gmail.com> writes:

But I was not using an updated pop3 library before gnus was updated.

And eveything is OK before updating. It is strange.

> Xiaodong Xu <stid.smth@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I am using debian testing / emacs-snapshot-unicode / gnus.
>>
>> When I updated my gnus with aptitude to version 5.11+v0.4.dfsg-1,
>> I found that it could not fetch mail from gmail by pop3.
>>
>> The related part of my dot.gnus file is as the following,
>>
>> (setq mail-sources
>>   '((pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
>>          :port 995
>>          :user "stid.smth"
>>          :connection ssl
>>          :leave t)))
>>
>> and when I typed "M-x gnus", gnus first prompt to input password
>> for my gmail account. I typed it correctly but gnus did not make
>> any reponse. After one minute or two, message was shown in the
>> mini buffer of my emacs. It said "mail source '((pop ...))..
>> error" or something like that. Inspite of this, reading news and
>> sending mail by stmp was not affected.
>>
>> If I switch back to gnus 5.10.6-1.NO.20051213-1, everything is
>> OK.
>>
>> Anyone else met with the same thing as me? Or is there anything
>> that I should notice with the new version of gnus?
>
> I'm not positive, but to get pop over SSL you need an enhanced pop3.el
> file for gnus, which I need for fetching my mail from gmail.  Try
> looking at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusGmail; there's a
> link in the 3rd paragraph to a site that contains an updated pop3
> library with instructions on how to install it. 
>
> Hope this helps.

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Re: reporting bug for gnus with pop3 function

[Xiaodong Xu]

Xiaodong Xu <stid.smth@gmail.com> writes:

After upgrading to gnus 5.11 again today, everything is OK.
Still not knowing the reason...

> Burton Samograd <kruhft@gmail.com> writes:
>
> But I was not using an updated pop3 library before gnus was updated.
>
> And eveything is OK before updating. It is strange.
>
>> Xiaodong Xu <stid.smth@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I am using debian testing / emacs-snapshot-unicode / gnus.
>>>
>>> When I updated my gnus with aptitude to version 5.11+v0.4.dfsg-1,
>>> I found that it could not fetch mail from gmail by pop3.
>>>
>>> The related part of my dot.gnus file is as the following,
>>>
>>> (setq mail-sources
>>>   '((pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
>>>          :port 995
>>>          :user "stid.smth"
>>>          :connection ssl
>>>          :leave t)))
>>>
>>> and when I typed "M-x gnus", gnus first prompt to input password
>>> for my gmail account. I typed it correctly but gnus did not make
>>> any reponse. After one minute or two, message was shown in the
>>> mini buffer of my emacs. It said "mail source '((pop ...))..
>>> error" or something like that. Inspite of this, reading news and
>>> sending mail by stmp was not affected.
>>>
>>> If I switch back to gnus 5.10.6-1.NO.20051213-1, everything is
>>> OK.
>>>
>>> Anyone else met with the same thing as me? Or is there anything
>>> that I should notice with the new version of gnus?
>>
>> I'm not positive, but to get pop over SSL you need an enhanced pop3.el
>> file for gnus, which I need for fetching my mail from gmail.  Try
>> looking at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusGmail; there's a
>> link in the 3rd paragraph to a site that contains an updated pop3
>> library with instructions on how to install it. 
>>
>> Hope this helps.

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