Hi Eric,
>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Abrahamsen <[email protected]> writes:
Eric> Pierfrancesco Caci <[email protected]> writes:
>> Hello,
>> yesterday I upgraded my system from debian wheezy to jessie.
>> I'm having some difficulties getting gnus to work as before.
>>
>> Here is what I had configured before the upgrade:
>>
>> '(gnus-secondary-select-methods
>> (quote (
>> (nnimap "localhost" (nnimap-stream ssl))
>> (nnimap "pf-tippete" (nnimap-address my\.imapserver\.it)
>> (nnimap-stream ssl)
>> (nnimap-expunge-on-close always)))))
>>
>> So, first problem, I couldn't access localhost anymore. A bit of
>> fiddling led me to:
>>
>> ((nnimap "localhost"
>> (nnimap-stream network))
Eric> I don't actually know if that "localhost" is supposed to be
Eric> interpreted
Eric> as an actual address, but the standard way of doing that would look
Eric> like:
Eric> (nnimap "decorative server name"
Eric> (nnimap-address "localhost")
Eric> (nnimap-stream network)
Eric> (nnimap-authenticator login)
Eric> (nnimap-user "[email protected]"))
Eric> I don't know how you have your dovecot set up, so maybe authentication
Eric> will work differently for you, but I don't know how dovecot would know
Eric> what user you want to log in as without the nnimap-user clause
Eric> in there.
I'm rereading the manual as you suggest below, and from that, and also
from the fact that it was working before with the very basic config, I
understand that (nnimap "somename") attemtps to use somename as a
hostname, unless there's something specified with
nnimap-address. I also notice that this version of gnus has added an
entry in .authinfo for localhost, which was not present before.
I suspect something changed in how dovecot presents the folders, and
that's why I'm seeing subdirectories that weren't previously treated a
imap folders. I need to dig into dovecot config and find what has
happened.
Eric> [...]
>> The second problem is that I can't access the remote server anymore, I
>> get this error:
>>
>> Opening connection to my.imapserver.it via tls...
>> Unable to open server nnimap+pf-tippete due to: Wrong type argument:
>> stringp, my\.imapserver\.it
>> Opening nnimap server on pf-tippete...failed:
>> No new newsgroups
Eric> The error message says it all: change my\.imapserver\.it to the string
Eric> "my.imapserver.it" and you should be fine.
I've tried this by changing the variable from inside emacs
configuration. I still get the escapes back when I save.
Interestingly, I can access the server fine if I "browse remote server"
and enter the required info manually
Eric> If the upgrade is taking you through several new versions of
Eric> Gnus, it's
Eric> probably worth going back to the Gnus manual and reading the
Eric> section on
Eric> IMAP again, just to make sure you've got everything right.
This is "the" manual, right? http://www.gnus.org/manual/big-gnus.html
Pf
Eric> HTH,
Eric> Eric
--
Pierfrancesco Caci, ik5pvx
_______________________________________________
info-gnus-english mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
