Re: nnimap and pgnus or qgnus?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> Now that Lars has started the pgnus series, will nnimap work with
> it?

Yes.

> I know that the latest set of nnimap releases (past two?) require a
> patch that will be part of qgnus 5.6.43 which is not yet available.
> Was that same patch applied to pgnus?  Can we / should we move to
> pgnus or stick with qgnus?

I'm not sure if the patch has been aplied to the pgnus series yet, but
I assume it will be if it's to be included in 5.6.43.

One word of warning: Emacs 20.3 + nnimap + strange characters (plain
iso-latin-1 is OK though) could result in problems -- reading some
articles in the ding list recently will produce a "end of file while
parsing" error from the IMAP library. Emacs 20.2 is fine, XEmacs is
probably OK too.

If anyone wants to debug this[1], edebug-defun imap-parse-line when
you're standing in a Summary buffer and change to the " *nnimap*
server" buffer when imap-parse-line is called, and have a look at
what's being done in the buffer -- when using the article length
returned from the server to jump in the article things will
break. I've tried to tinker with set-buffer-multibyte but it didn't
seem to help. The article text is returned and later intern'ed in the
buffer, somewhere it's converted to latin-1 where it shouldn't. Trace
it in Emacs 20.2 (where it works) and in Emacs 20.3 (where it doesn't)
to spot the difference.

[1]: see next mail