From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: 7487@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 01:10:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxowvwn6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
I updated from bzr for the first time in a few months today, and
immediately ran into problems with Gnus.
My Gnus related variables are:
'(gnus-select-method (quote (nnimap "localhost")))
'(gnus-sieve-crosspost nil)
'(gnus-sieve-file "~/.sieve.d/Gnus.sieve")
everything else is set to defaults.
Upon starting Gnus, some of my groups are showing unread articles in the
summary buffer, including groups which I only manually move articles
into, and which I have not touched for months. After entering these
groups, I see some old articles that I have ticked, and some lines
saying that an article has not been downloaded (I have fixed the problem
now, and I did not have the foresight to note down the exact text). It
seems gnus-agent (which I never explicitly enabled, but have had problems
with in past upgrades after it was enabled by default) is out of sync
with the server, and deleting the ~/News/agent directory fixed the
problem.
Now when I start Gnus, I get the message
nnimap (localhost) open error: 'Unable to contact localhost:imaps via
ssl'. Continue?
I answer 'y', expecting Gnus to continue using imap, as I configured it,
but get the following messages:
Reading /home/jasonr/.newsrc.eld...
Opening nnimap server on localhost...
Denied server nnimap+localhost
Opening nnimap server on localhost...failed: Unable to contact
localhost:imaps via ssl
This is a terrible user experience. Trying SSL first is a good feature,
but if it fails, Gnus should fall back to using plain imap as the user
has configured. It isn't even obvious to me what variable I have to set
to access plain imap anymore.
Following this, I configured Gnus to use imaps (which I have configured on a
non-standard port to get through certain firewalls but never bothered to
use before on localhost), and now run into a third problem. Upon
logging in, I am prompted to add my login credentials to
~/.authinfo.gpg. This brings up a confusing buffer asking me to mark a
public key, which I have discovered by trial and error only works if I
select no public keys so it falls back on symetric encryption. After
entering an encryption password twice, I was able to read my mail at
last.
But my problems aren't over yet. When I quit Gnus and start it again,
my encryption password for authinfo.gpg doesn't appear to work.
Actually, it is working, because if I enter a different password, it
fails immediately, whereas if I enter the correct password it loops
forever asking for my password (maybe not forever, but my patience for
finding out is limited).
Using C-x C-f to find ~/.authinfo.gpg works after entering the password
once, the the problem seems to be particular to the way Gnus is opening
the file, not a general problem with file decryption.
The messages from this failure are below.
In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.0)
of 2010-11-25 on wanchan
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10900000
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: en_NZ.utf8
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
default enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Fundamental
Minor modes in effect:
show-paren-mode: t
display-time-mode: t
cua-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug
-report>
Recent messages:
/home/jasonr/.authin: 100% (96/96)
/home/jasonr/.authin: 0% (0/96)
/home/jasonr/.authin: 100% (96/96)
/home/jasonr/.authin: 0% (0/96)
/home/jasonr/.authin: 100% (96/96)
/home/jasonr/.authin: 0% (0/96)
Unable to open server nnimap+localhost due to: Opening input file: Can't decrypt, ((exit) (quit))
nnimap (localhost) open error: ''. Continue? n
Couldn't open server on localhost
Warning: Unable to open server nnimap+localhost due to: Opening input file: Can't decrypt, ((exit) (quit))
Load-path shadows:
None found.
Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug epa-file epa derived epg auth-source
nnimap parse-time tls utf7 netrc gnus-agent gnus-srvr gnus-score
score-mode nnvirtual gnus-msg gnus-art mm-uu mml2015 epg-config mm-view
smime password-cache dig mailcap nntp gnus-cache gnus-sum nnoo
gnus-group gnus-undo nnmail mail-source format-spec gnus-start gnus-spec
gnus-int gnus-range message sendmail rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode
mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums
mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader gnus-win jka-compr org-mouse org-w3m
org-jsinfo org-infojs org-html org-exp ob-exp org-exp-blocks org-agenda
org-info org-id org-gnus org-bbdb paren gnus gnus-ems nnheader gnus-util
mail-utils mm-util mail-prsvr wid-edit time cua-base cus-start cus-load
remember org-remember org-datetree org byte-opt warnings bytecomp
byte-compile advice help-fns advice-preload ob-emacs-lisp ob-tangle
ob-ref ob-lob ob-table org-footnote org-src ob-comint comint ring
ob-keys ob org-list org-faces org-compat org-entities org-macs time-date
noutline outline easy-mmode regexp-opt cal-menu easymenu calendar
cal-loaddefs server tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel
x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page
menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock
syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek
romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev loaddefs button
minibuffer faces cus-face files text-properties overlay md5 base64
format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
backquote make-network-process dbusbind dynamic-setting
system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x
multi-tty emacs)
next reply other threads:[~2010-11-26 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-26 17:10 Jason Rumney [this message]
2010-12-05 16:49 ` bug#7487: 24.0.50; Gnus nnimap broken Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] <mailman.0.1290791691.11667.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-11-28 2:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <m3ipziupey.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
2010-12-06 16:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-07 23:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-08 17:00 ` Jason Rumney
2010-12-09 21:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-10 2:55 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <ids61l$jr6$2@quimby.gnus.org>
2010-12-10 16:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-08 17:05 ` Jason Rumney
2010-12-08 23:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-09 21:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <mailman.1.1291931529.5417.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-10 18:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-10 20:56 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.38.1292016144.4804.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-13 3:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 17:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-13 20:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-14 1:08 ` Daiki Ueno
2010-12-15 2:06 ` Daiki Ueno
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2010-12-15 14:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-15 22:05 ` Daiki Ueno
2010-12-15 23:42 ` Daiki Ueno
2010-12-16 2:45 ` Daiki Ueno
[not found] ` <mailman.13.1292467961.28766.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-16 16:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-16 19:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-16 19:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-16 19:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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