gnus imap error in 21.3

gnus imap error in 21.3

[Kin Cho]

Hi,

I use gnus via imap (over ssl) to get mail from our exchange
server as follows:

(setq nnimap-stream 'ssl
      gnus-select-method
      '(nnimap "mail-imap"
	       (nnimap-address "ourexchsrvr")
	       (nnimap-list-pattern "INBOX"))
       ;; ...
       )

All's well under 21.2.  However, under 21.3, this error traceback
happens when I select the "INBOX" group:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Couldn't open server")
  signal(error ("Couldn't open server"))
  error("Couldn't open server")
  gnus-select-newsgroup("INBOX" nil nil)
  gnus-summary-read-group-1("INBOX" nil nil nil nil nil)
  gnus-summary-read-group("INBOX" nil nil nil nil nil nil)
  gnus-group-read-group(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus-group-read-group)

I checked the version of gnus on both 21.2 and 21.3 is v5.9.0.

I'm running i386 RedHat 7.3.

-kin

Re: gnus imap error in 21.3

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Kin Cho <kin@neoscale.com> writes:

> Turned out the problem was that I'm missing ssl.el in 21.3.
>
> ssl.el persumably comes from w3, but I don't know how it ended up
> in my 21.2 installation.
>
> Copying ssl.elc? into 21.3's site-lisp dir fixed the problem.
>
> -kin
>
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>     All's well under 21.2.  However, under 21.3, this error traceback
>>     happens when I select the "INBOX" group:
>> 
>> Can you compare the source code of the two versions
>> and see which change causes this problem?

FYI, I removed the dependence of ssl.el in the main branch of the
Emacs CVS in Feb 28 2003.

Does it go into the next release of Emacs?

ShengHuo

Re: gnus imap error in 21.3

[Richard Stallman]

    FYI, I removed the dependence of ssl.el in the main branch of the
    Emacs CVS in Feb 28 2003.

    Does it go into the next release of Emacs?

It will go in the next release that we make from the trunk.
We may make a 21.4 release that is 21.3 with small fixes.

Re: gnus imap error in 21.3

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Kin Cho <kin@neoscale.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I use gnus via imap (over ssl) to get mail from our exchange
> server as follows:
>
> (setq nnimap-stream 'ssl
>       gnus-select-method
>       '(nnimap "mail-imap"
> 	       (nnimap-address "ourexchsrvr")
> 	       (nnimap-list-pattern "INBOX"))
>        ;; ...
>        )
>
> All's well under 21.2.  However, under 21.3, this error traceback
> happens when I select the "INBOX" group:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Couldn't open server")
>   signal(error ("Couldn't open server"))
>   error("Couldn't open server")
>   gnus-select-newsgroup("INBOX" nil nil)
>   gnus-summary-read-group-1("INBOX" nil nil nil nil nil)
>   gnus-summary-read-group("INBOX" nil nil nil nil nil nil)
>   gnus-group-read-group(nil)
>   call-interactively(gnus-group-read-group)
>
> I checked the version of gnus on both 21.2 and 21.3 is v5.9.0.
>
> I'm running i386 RedHat 7.3.

The reason is probably that you don't have ssl.el on your
path. ssl.el is not a part of Emacs. Loading ssl package should fix
the problem. 

This problem has been fixed future releases of Emacs.

ShengHuo