Package: gnus
Version: 5.10.6-1.NO.20051213-1
Severity: wishlist
Recently, the following situation occurred: Gnus downloaded mail from
the IMAP server I use, and it deleted it on the server, since this is
the way I have configured it. However, there was something in the mail
messages that caused Gnus and Emacs to take up all available memory in
the system, and eventually the kernel started killing processes,
starting of course with Emacs.
As a consequence, all my mail was lost. I could see the new message
headers in my Gnus folders, but the message bodies were irretrievably
lost.
I am not filing this as a regular bug, since I recognize this was
an extraordinary situation, triggered perhaps by a specific
configuration on my machine. However, I would like to request that
Gnus adopts the following functionality: whenever mail is downloaded
and deleted from a server, immediately save the raw, unprocessed
messages to temporary files, and then process them. That way, at least
I would have the original messages, in case Emacs crashes. Thanks for
the consideration,
-Ivan Raikov
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages gnus depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.65 Debian configuration management sy
ii emacs21 21.4a-1 The GNU Emacs editor
ii make 3.80-11 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii ucf 2.004 Update Configuration File: preserv
gnus recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
gnus/upgrade/pre_5.9.0: false
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