Pyromania writes:
> On Thu, Jul 24 2025, Luis Henriques wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 24 2025, James Thomas wrote:
>
>>> But you can use (info "(gnus)
>>> Agent Basics") simply using 'J a' on the nnimap server.
>
>>> Wdyk, you might even like it better. :-)
>
>> Ah! In fact, I have never looked into this agent thing. It may actually
>> be interesting. I'll need to go through the manual and see if that will
>> help improve my current setup. (In fact, my current setup works fine, I'm
>> using nnimap to connect directly to my mail servers.)
>
>> Thanks a lot for your suggestion, James. I'll definitely have a look into
>> it ;-)
>
>> Cheers,
>
> I’m using Gnus and ‘nnimap’ with the Agent for a few months. I can say
> that I’m much more satisfied compared to other MUAs. Give it a try,
> the agent’s easy to setup.
On that note, if any of you run into the bug that this was intended to
fix, pleasy try and file a report (with Cc to me).
diff --git a/lisp/gnus/nnimap.el b/lisp/gnus/nnimap.el
index 30f0a4b6a62..16ec71a5a91 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/nnimap.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/nnimap.el
@@ -1921,7 +1921,17 @@ nnimap-change-group
(let ((open-result t))
(when (and server
(not (nnimap-server-opened server)))
- (setq open-result (nnimap-open-server server nil no-reconnect)))
+ ;; J s on process-marked, on closed server (re-plugged) (or maybe
+ ;; after making another nnimap current).
+
+ ;; It's an unreversion of Andreas's
+ ;; 5a327bd99c1a9e52059b0216904ba30da210d711, with his ostensible
+ ;; original rationale for doing so handled with a small
+ ;; tweak. There's a similar precedent in L#1095.
+ ;; Copying him hoping he'll weigh in.
+ (let ((method (gnus-server-to-method (format "nnimap:%s" server))))
+ (setq open-result (nnimap-open-server (nth 1 method) (nthcdr 2 method)
+ no-reconnect))))
(cond
((not open-result)
nil)
--
