*** E-Mail body has been placed on clipboard, please paste it here! *** Gnus worked very well for me until I decided to try Gnus Cloud to synchronize news between two computers. I set up nnimap to point to my iCloud mail imap account, started reading mail in Gnus, then set up the Gnus cloud repository there. Everything worked as expected. I quit Gnus multiple times and restarted and everything worked as expected. Then I quit emacs and restarted a few hours later, and found that Gnus would hang on startup while checking for new news. I removed the nnimap lines from init.el and restarted emacs, but it still hanged. I touched .newsrc and Gnus started. I conclude that there is a problem with .newsrc.eld but I don't understand the format well enough to do surgery on it. My theory is that maybe there is some kind of security feature on iCloud mail that is not allowing Gnus access after a time. For now I'm deactivating nnimap and restoring .newsrc.eld from backup which should get me back to normal, but I would appreciate any guidance you may have using Gnus cloud with iCloud. In GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-cygwin) of 2023-08-02 built on fv-az1230-315 Repository revision: 4b30826aa1cffa1961d0b337dd3735a541937792 Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19045 Configured using: 'configure --srcdir=/cygdrive/d/a/scallywag/emacs/emacs-29.1-1.x86_64/src/emacs-29.1 --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --docdir=/usr/share/doc/emacs --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/emacs/html -C --with-w32 'CFLAGS=-ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -fdebug-prefix-map=/cygdrive/d/a/scallywag/emacs/emacs-29.1-1.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/emacs-29.1-1 -fdebug-prefix-map=/cygdrive/d/a/scallywag/emacs/emacs-29.1-1.x86_64/src/emacs-29.1=/usr/src/debug/emacs-29.1-1' CPPFLAGS= LDFLAGS=' Configured features: ACL DBUS GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY GFILENOTIFY PDUMPER PNG SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XIM XPM ZLIB Important settings: locale-coding-system: nil Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: pyvenv-mode: t electric-cursor-mode: t which-key-mode: t google-this-mode: t delete-selection-mode: t TeX-PDF-mode: t TeX-source-correlate-mode: t server-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t line-number-mode: t indent-tabs-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. 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