From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18127 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: nnimap woes after debian upgrade Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 14:33:24 +0800 Message-ID: <87r3g9xl8r.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87ziux3mdo.fsf@snoopy.tippete.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455863630 3272 80.91.229.3 (19 Feb 2016 06:33:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 06:33:50 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 19 07:33:40 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aWedH-0003Xy-MG for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 07:33:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWedG-0002QW-Ut for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:33:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34841) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWedE-0002N2-Be for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:33:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWedA-000826-AP for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:33:36 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37045) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWedA-00081t-3l for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:33:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aWed8-0003RS-EL for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 07:33:30 +0100 Original-Received: from mail.ericabrahamsen.net ([50.56.99.223]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 07:33:30 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by mail.ericabrahamsen.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 07:33:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 54 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.ericabrahamsen.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:V0nyEN3gDl9ez2h9fog+mfzJ/v0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18127 Archived-At: Pierfrancesco Caci writes: > Hello, > yesterday I upgraded my system from debian wheezy to jessie. > I'm having some difficulties getting gnus to work as before. > > Here is what I had configured before the upgrade: > > '(gnus-secondary-select-methods > (quote ( > (nnimap "localhost" (nnimap-stream ssl)) > (nnimap "pf-tippete" (nnimap-address my\.imapserver\.it) > (nnimap-stream ssl) > (nnimap-expunge-on-close always))))) > > So, first problem, I couldn't access localhost anymore. A bit of > fiddling led me to: > > ((nnimap "localhost" > (nnimap-stream network)) I don't actually know if that "localhost" is supposed to be interpreted as an actual address, but the standard way of doing that would look like: (nnimap "decorative server name" (nnimap-address "localhost") (nnimap-stream network) (nnimap-authenticator login) (nnimap-user "your@user.name")) I don't know how you have your dovecot set up, so maybe authentication will work differently for you, but I don't know how dovecot would know what user you want to log in as without the nnimap-user clause in there. [...] > The second problem is that I can't access the remote server anymore, I > get this error: > > Opening connection to my.imapserver.it via tls... > Unable to open server nnimap+pf-tippete due to: Wrong type argument: stringp, my\.imapserver\.it > Opening nnimap server on pf-tippete...failed: > No new newsgroups The error message says it all: change my\.imapserver\.it to the string "my.imapserver.it" and you should be fine. If the upgrade is taking you through several new versions of Gnus, it's probably worth going back to the Gnus manual and reading the section on IMAP again, just to make sure you've got everything right. HTH, Eric