From: Dan Smith <dsmith@nospam-danplanet.com>
Subject: Re: imap problems
Date: 22 Nov 2002 10:03:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zns1sl3o.fsf@eagle.dansmithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yqrlm3lhkla.fsf@cs.york.ac.uk>
> Can anyone tell why on trying to open my imap server gnus just hangs?
> nnimap: Generating active list for minster.cs.york.ac.uk...
My gnus would hang when listing the IMAP server unless I added a
pattern to the list. I found that without it, the imapd on the server
was trying to find every file in my home dir and look at it like a
mail file.
Add this to your imap server definition:
(nnimap-list-pattern "INBOX")
--Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-22 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-22 12:09 Kester Clegg
2002-11-22 15:03 ` Dan Smith [this message]
2007-11-28 5:37 IMAP problems Bill Harris
2007-11-28 6:43 ` Torsten Mueller
2007-11-28 18:54 ` Bill Harris
2007-11-28 21:08 ` Hasse Hagen Johansen
2007-11-28 22:31 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-29 0:32 ` Bill Harris
2007-11-29 16:39 ` Bill
2007-11-29 17:08 ` Bill
2007-11-29 17:35 ` Bill
2007-11-29 22:45 ` Bill
2007-11-30 15:44 ` Bill Harris
2007-11-30 16:02 ` Bill Harris
2007-11-30 21:22 ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-02 3:26 ` Bill Harris
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