From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1502 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: imap problems Date: 22 Nov 2002 10:03:07 -0500 Organization: WEBUSENET.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668252 11529 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:44:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:44:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:15 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.maxwell.syr.edu!c02.atl3!news.webusenet.com!pc01.webusenet.com!news.bellsouth.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Sender: dsmith@eagle.dansmithnet.com Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly. Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:47:29 US/ Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1642 Original-Lines: 15 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1642 Tue Jan 17 17:29:15 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1502 Archived-At: > 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