Lars Ingebrigtsen writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen writes:
>
>> I've got my nntp server set in `gnus-select-method', maybe that's why?
>> This has annoyed me off and on for years but I've never taken the time
>> to look into it. My other servers are all localhost nnimap and I never
>> see errors there.
Lol!
Thanks. OK, so I wasn't off the mark, then. :-)
I'm not even sure this needs to be fixed. It's good that the fact that
the server couldn't be reached is signalled, but continuing seems like
the right thing to do. The message is somewhat misleading though. How
about changing the "question" to
Eric Abrahamsen writes:
> I've got my nntp server set in `gnus-select-method', maybe that's why?
> This has annoyed me off and on for years but I've never taken the time
> to look into it. My other servers are all localhost nnimap and I never
> see errors there. I just set debug-on-message approp
Lars Ingebrigtsen writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen writes:
>
>> `nnmail-get-new-mail' is called from within `gnus-request-scan', and
>> there's no error ignoring around `gnus-request-scan' in
>> `gnus-get-unread-articles' -- is there? I can't see anything. I would
>> propose removing error handling fro
Eric Abrahamsen writes:
> `nnmail-get-new-mail' is called from within `gnus-request-scan', and
> there's no error ignoring around `gnus-request-scan' in
> `gnus-get-unread-articles' -- is there? I can't see anything. I would
> propose removing error handling from `nnmail-get-new-mail-1': if the
>
Lars Ingebrigtsen writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen writes:
>
>> We create a few custom error symbols for backend errors, including mail
>> source failures, open-server failures, etc, and we put some
>> condition-cases handling those errors in `gnus-get-unread-articles'.
>
> This is called from nnmail-g
Eric Abrahamsen writes:
> We create a few custom error symbols for backend errors, including mail
> source failures, open-server failures, etc, and we put some
> condition-cases handling those errors in `gnus-get-unread-articles'.
This is called from nnmail-get-new-mail-1, though, which ignores
Lars Ingebrigtsen writes:
> Lars-Johan Liman writes:
>
>> My question: how is my answer (yes/no) used? (Which are the consequences
>> of responding yes or no, respectively?)
>
> Answering "no" should beep an error, say "Cannot get new mail" and then
> stop. Hm... but I see that the caller (in
Lars-Johan Liman writes:
> My question: how is my answer (yes/no) used? (Which are the consequences
> of responding yes or no, respectively?)
Answering "no" should beep an error, say "Cannot get new mail" and then
stop. Hm... but I see that the caller (in `nnmail-get-new-mail-1' just
ignores t
