From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Emacs gnus (tls) IMAP connection problems with Google Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:45:42 +0100 Message-ID: <86o96yvkm1.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <97C6EF26-AA98-463F-96D6-B5CD8AA7A467@scratch.space> <87k1iqvw4f.fsf@nixly.net> <86bm3jys3m.fsf@zoho.eu> <86r2bv3ntr.fsf@zoho.eu> <86mumj3mic.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="148806"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 26 13:03:58 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gybSm-000cYA-3k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:03:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53773 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gybSl-00060N-0D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 07:03:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49324) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gybBW-0001FM-FE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 06:46:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gybBU-0002NF-8Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 06:46:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=50132 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gybBK-0002HO-S3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 06:45:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gybBF-000IaM-6z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:45:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Followup-To: gmane.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:pi/OsMejYpulqgaEOxQiO5NfSQE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119530 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88418 Archived-At: >> I think I has been able to solve this issue >> after several years of getting that error. >> The solution: >> >> (require 'tls) > > I spoke to soon. I still get the > error message. > > The error this solved was the one that didn't > come with a message, the one when the > `gnus-group-get-new-news' would stall > indefinitely and one would have to do C-g > (somtimes twice, or even a couple of times) > before one try finally went thru. > > On the positive side, that error was ten > times as frequent and annoying, so I suppose > one shouldn't complain. OK, after working great yesterday (yesternight) when I today tried to get my mail it wouldn't work *at all*! "Authentication failed"! This has never happened before! As has been evident from square one, I have absolutely no clue what's going on. After messing around with the files I got it to work again, *but* in the old state where I get to "get mail" repeatedly before it works, and I do get the old error message [1] now and then. All of this is probably of no value to anyone because I have an old system and an old Emacs. I should upgrade it all but I only have everything on a single SD card, 10+ years of work on my very own all but complete system (WRT to the interface and UX), and I don't dare upgrade anything before I clone the system, which I can't as I have only one computer, which, of course, runs the very system! Well, hell, I'll solve it someday, God willing. As for a new Emacs, I did manually install it from source (if "manually" is the correct word since it is super-automated and requires no skills whatsoever, compliments to the chef) but all my 100+ Elisp files were a complete mess on the new Emacs, and in particular, I couldn't get Emacs-w3m to work. Anyway I look forward to solving all those issues one day, God willing. PS. If this Manny's Computer News broadcast wasn't interesting for you to watch, then why didn't you simply switch off your terminal emulator to do some push-ups instead? DS. [1] gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: Error in the pull function. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573