From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernt Hansen Subject: Re: Gnus nnimap links Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:40:49 -0400 Message-ID: <87k5f9eoqm.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> References: <87prp17qhr.fsf@transitory.lefae.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KMT9t-0003e8-Hq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:40:57 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KMT9s-0003dk-TT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:40:57 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46068 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KMT9s-0003df-OR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:40:56 -0400 Received: from mho-02-bos.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.179]:50833) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KMT9s-0006vV-Me for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:40:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87prp17qhr.fsf@transitory.lefae.org> (Ross Patterson's message of "Fri\, 25 Jul 2008 11\:44\:48 -0700") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ross Patterson Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Ross Patterson writes: > I find that my org-mode links to Gnus articles are very unstable, often > breaking. Specifically, a link to an article will work when created and > later be broken. > > Almost all the links I make to Gnus articles are to articles in an > nnimap backend connecting to a local dovecot IMAP server that is synced > with the remote dovecot IMAP server using OfflineIMAP. I don't know if > its at all specific to nnimap or OfflineIMAPI. IOW, since the problem > is intermittent and I don't link to many articles with other backends, > the fact that I've only run into this problem with this stack doesn't > mean it doesn't occur for a different stack. > > Has anyone run into this or a related problem? Does anyone have any > suggestions for where I might start looking. I use Gnus with a local cyrus imap server on my network. Occasionally links to mail fails when they are in subfolders of my INBOX. (i.e. a link to [[gnus:INBOX.SomeFolder#12345][email description]] will fail. I usually have Gnus session permanently open in a second frame all day long and if I just open the SomeFolder group in Gnus then the link works again. So far that's my workaround for this issue - it's not very elegant but it Works For Me(tm). -Bernt