Re: gmail and nnimap - hanging

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Paul Rudin <paul@rudin.co.uk> writes:

>>> When reading gmail via nnimap I find that quite often things
>>> hang. Pressing C-g and then g will often sort things out.
>>
>> I thought I had the same problem recently.  See the thread starting
>> with:
>>
>>   http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/cutoff=83751
>>
>> It turned out that it acually was't gmail that caused the hang, but
>> instead it's been some nntp server, only the output in the message area
>> was misleading.
>
> Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure the url you gave links to the thread
> you intended? At least I can't see anything directly relevant.

Oh, no, the link doesn't show the right thread.  What I've meant is the
thread starting with

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83408

But here I don't know how to switch to the complete thread view in the
gmane web interface...

> I don't think it's an nntp problem in my case. If temporarily disable
> reading via nntp the problem persists with the gmail connection.

Ok, I see.

Bye,
Tassilo