bug#6638: gnus hangs on connection to IMAP account on Windows

bug#6638: gnus hangs on connection to IMAP account on Windows

[Christoph]

I am using Emacs 23.2.1 with the included gnus 5.13 on Windows 7 and I 
am trying to connect to a Gmail account via IMAP/SSL. gnus hangs at some 
point while connecting to the IMAP folder and C-g is needed to abort.

I have installed gnutls-cli v2.8.6 from http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/ 
and added the bin/ directory to path and exec-path, but also tried the 
latest version v2.10.0 with the same result.

Relevant parts of .gnu.el:

(setq starttls-use-gnutls t
       starttls-gnutls-program "gnutls-cli"
       starttls-extra-arguments nil)

(setq imap-ssl-program "gnutls-cli --port %p %s")

(setq gnus-select-method
       '(nnimap "gmail"
                (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
                (nnimap-stream ssl)
                (nnimap-server-port 993)
                (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.emacs.d/.authinfo")))

(setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
       message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
       smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 nil nil))
       smtpmail-auth-credentials "~/.emacs.d/.authinfo"
       smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
       smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
       smtpmail-smtp-service 587
       smtpmail-debug-info t)


Relevant information from *Message* buffer:

imap: Connecting to imap.gmail.com...
imap: Opening SSL connection with `gnutls-cli --port %p %s'...done
Waiting for response from imap.gmail.com...done
Parsing authinfo file `~/.emacs.d/.authinfo'.
imap: Authenticating to `imap.gmail.com' using `login'...
imap: Plaintext authentication...
imap: Login successful...
imap: Authenticating to `imap.gmail.com' using `login'...done
Quit trying to open server nnimap+gmail
Unable to open server nnimap+gmail, go offline? (y or n)
Please answer y or n.  Unable to open server nnimap+gmail, go offline? 
(y or n)
nnimap (gmail) open error: ''.  Continue? (y or n)
Couldn't open server on gmail


Emacs bug report info:

In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600)
  of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags 
-Ic:/xpm/include'

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: ENU
   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
   locale-coding-system: cp1252
   default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
   ido-everywhere: t
   yas/global-mode: t
   yas/minor-mode: t
   global-auto-revert-mode: t
   delete-selection-mode: t
   tooltip-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   font-lock-mode: t
   blink-cursor-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   column-number-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x C-f <backspace> w i n d o <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> g n u s <return>
M-> C-x RET e v a l - b u f f e r <return> C-x RET
g n u s <return> <down-mouse-1> n n <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <help-echo> C-x o <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <left> <left> <left>
<left> C-SPC C-SPC C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n M-w <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> C-x 1 C-x k <return> C-x RET r e p o r t
- b u <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Quit trying to open server nnimap+gmail
Unable to open server nnimap+gmail, go offline? (y or n)
Please answer y or n.  Unable to open server nnimap+gmail, go offline? 
(y or n)
nnimap (gmail) open error: ''.  Continue? (y or n)
Couldn't open server on gmail
Quit
Mark set
Mark activated
Saved text from "imap: Connecting to imap.gmail.com...
im"

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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bug#6638: gnus hangs on connection to IMAP account on Windows

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com> writes:

> I am using Emacs 23.2.1 with the included gnus 5.13 on Windows 7 and I
> am trying to connect to a Gmail account via IMAP/SSL. gnus hangs at
> some point while connecting to the IMAP folder and C-g is needed to
> abort.

I don't know about Windows, but nnimap has been reimplemented, and
I've not heard of anybody having problems reading Gmail stuff with it.
So this has probably been fixed in development Gnus/Emacs.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen