From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18133 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: nnimap woes after debian upgrade Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:20:48 +0800 Message-ID: <87twl46mhr.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87ziux3mdo.fsf@snoopy.tippete.net> <87vb5k3khx.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 1455942088 23279 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2016 04:21:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 04:21:28 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 05:21:18 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 1aWz2j-0003DM-JN for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 05:21:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57898 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWz2i-0005zR-KJ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 23:21:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44311) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWz2d-0005zA-CC for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 23:21:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWz2Z-0006zT-3e for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 23:21:11 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42159) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWz2Y-0006yY-Tm for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 23:21:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aWz2W-00032e-M0 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 05:21:05 +0100 Original-Received: from 116.1.71.93 ([116.1.71.93]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 05:21:04 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by 116.1.71.93 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 05:21:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 45 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.1.71.93 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lixCK9fdeo/LDC2NF5MdFwEJvOY= 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:18133 Archived-At: Pierfrancesco Caci writes: > Hi Eric, [...] > I'm rereading the manual as you suggest below, and from that, and also > from the fact that it was working before with the very basic config, I > understand that (nnimap "somename") attemtps to use somename as a > hostname, unless there's something specified with > nnimap-address. Interesting, I didn't know that. [...] > Eric> The error message says it all: change my\.imapserver\.it to the string > Eric> "my.imapserver.it" and you should be fine. > > I've tried this by changing the variable from inside emacs > configuration. I still get the escapes back when I save. Did you put quotes in explicitly when entering the server name? You should see the double quotes in the customization interface. > Interestingly, I can access the server fine if I "browse remote server" > and enter the required info manually When you enter the server name at the prompt, it's automatically treated as a string and quoted. > Eric> If the upgrade is taking you through several new versions of > Eric> Gnus, it's > Eric> probably worth going back to the Gnus manual and reading the > Eric> section on > Eric> IMAP again, just to make sure you've got everything right. > > This is "the" manual, right? http://www.gnus.org/manual/big-gnus.html You'll be best off using the in-Emacs info browser: "C-h i", and then "m" and "Gnus". That way you'll know that the manual you're reading corresponds to the Gnus you're using. HTH, Eric