Eric Abrahamsen <[email protected]> writes:
> `nnmail-get-new-mail' is called from within `gnus-request-scan', and
> there's no error ignoring around `gnus-request-scan' in
> `gnus-get-unread-articles' -- is there? I can't see anything. I would
> propose removing error handling from `nnmail-get-new-mail-1': if the
> fetching of mail sources well and truly fails (and the user hits "no" to
> give up on the process), it should just signal an error up the line.
Yes, I think so... but isn't there error handling in gnus-request-scan?
I really thought there was...
> I think nntp servers are louder than the others. When I hit "g" and the
> nntp connection times out, I get a "server closed connection" message,
> and the whole update process halts.
That sounds like a bug. :-) If I push, for instance
(nntp "localhost")
to gnus-secondary-select-methods and hit g, I get an error message and
then the server is marked as "denied", but Gnus carries on its merry
way. (Same if something times out or I hit `C-g' while it's connecting.)
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