Re: nnimap stuck doing J s on denied server

[Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>]

>>>>> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>:

> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
>> The xemacs is completely dead.  It does not take C-g and it does not
>> update itself when overlapping windows are moved away.  I don't know
>> what would happen after 5 minutes or so, because after that I just
>> kill the entire xemacs process.

> I'm not able to reproduce this, with XEmacs 20.4, 21.1 or 21.2 on
> intel linux with latest Gnus.

> What does "cannot reach the IMAP server" mean? 

Traffic on port 143/tcp blocked by routers.

> I've tried theese cases:

>         host lookup fail
>         host lookup works, host does not reply (tcp level)

That's the one.

>         host lookup work, host reply but login fail

> and everything work as expected.  I could imagine something funny
> might happen if the server reply at the tcp level but you don't get
> a IMAP conversation going.  But C-g should work.

Sometimes it works on "g", but I haven't been able to make it work on
"J s".  It's as dead as a dodo.

Is there a way to wake it up to get some sort of debug information?
Is there a way to start an error trace to file?

> This is with `network' nnimap-stream, do you use SSL, STARTTLS,
> Kerberos 4 or GSSAPI?

`network' I think.  Here's a typical entry:

	(nnimap "neptun"
		(nnimap-address "neptun.computas.no"))