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Thien-Thi Nguyen
Apr 14, 2012, 8:59:55 AM4/14/12
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A local Gnus user that i support did something "mysterious"
and now some of the nnml groups seem to be (i'm not sure)
agentized, or at least relocated from dir
~/Mail/mail
to dir
~/News/agent/nnml/unnamed/mail
Another (possibly unrelated) result is that attempts to retrieve
mail (using ‘g’) from one of the IMAP sources now consistently
shows "Mail source (DETAILS) error (IMAP error: Internal error
occurred. Error report written to server log [TIMESTAMP])". Hmm...
I'd like to restore previous known-good state if possible.
How can i validate (for self-consistency and well-formedness)
the structure of the Mail and News subdirs?
I imagine, say, ‘M-x validate-gnus-installation RET’ to either
display a message "Everything OK" or pop up a buffer w/ some
diagnostic info that might help to track down the "mysterious"
goings on.
Dare i hope for such a beast to exist?
Presuming the answer is "no, until Someone writes it", the
next questions are:
- How would i go about diagnosing the current situation?
- What would be the best way to repair the Mail and News
dirs and restore mail-retrieval functionality?
and now some of the nnml groups seem to be (i'm not sure)
agentized, or at least relocated from dir
~/Mail/mail
to dir
~/News/agent/nnml/unnamed/mail
Another (possibly unrelated) result is that attempts to retrieve
mail (using ‘g’) from one of the IMAP sources now consistently
shows "Mail source (DETAILS) error (IMAP error: Internal error
occurred. Error report written to server log [TIMESTAMP])". Hmm...
I'd like to restore previous known-good state if possible.
How can i validate (for self-consistency and well-formedness)
the structure of the Mail and News subdirs?
I imagine, say, ‘M-x validate-gnus-installation RET’ to either
display a message "Everything OK" or pop up a buffer w/ some
diagnostic info that might help to track down the "mysterious"
goings on.
Dare i hope for such a beast to exist?
Presuming the answer is "no, until Someone writes it", the
next questions are:
- How would i go about diagnosing the current situation?
- What would be the best way to repair the Mail and News
dirs and restore mail-retrieval functionality?
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Jun 10, 2012, 3:27:00 PM6/10/12
to Thien-Thi Nguyen, info-gnu...@gnu.org
Thien-Thi Nguyen <t...@gnuvola.org> writes:
> I imagine, say, ‘M-x validate-gnus-installation RET’ to either
> display a message "Everything OK" or pop up a buffer w/ some
> diagnostic info that might help to track down the "mysterious"
> goings on.
>
> Dare i hope for such a beast to exist?
It's a mythical beast, I'm afraid.
> I imagine, say, ‘M-x validate-gnus-installation RET’ to either
> display a message "Everything OK" or pop up a buffer w/ some
> diagnostic info that might help to track down the "mysterious"
> goings on.
>
> Dare i hope for such a beast to exist?
> Presuming the answer is "no, until Someone writes it", the
> next questions are:
> - How would i go about diagnosing the current situation?
> - What would be the best way to repair the Mail and News
> dirs and restore mail-retrieval functionality?
whatever Gnus does, that should be the result. Did anybody upgrade the
IMAP server or something?
--
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Thien-Thi Nguyen
Jun 10, 2012, 4:54:43 PM6/10/12
to Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, info-gnu...@gnu.org
() Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <la...@gnus.org>
() Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:27:00 +0200
> - How would i go about diagnosing the current situation?
> - What would be the best way to repair the Mail and News
> dirs and restore mail-retrieval functionality?
weeks (months?) back. If it arises again, i'll try to take better
notes.
() Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:27:00 +0200
> - How would i go about diagnosing the current situation?
> - What would be the best way to repair the Mail and News
> dirs and restore mail-retrieval functionality?
You're getting internal IMAP server errors, and I'm not sure
that whatever Gnus does, that should be the result. Did
anybody upgrade the IMAP server or something?
Maybe. I think the situation resolved itself somehow, several
that whatever Gnus does, that should be the result. Did
anybody upgrade the IMAP server or something?
weeks (months?) back. If it arises again, i'll try to take better
notes.
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