Re: Two problems with gnus

[Simon Josefsson]

"Tang  Yan" <tang.yan@gmail.com> writes:

> OK, I think I should do something for Gnus because I am using it.

Many thanks.

> Yes, SMTP AUTH is very easy in gnus. The only small problem is that
> the port number should be 25(INT), not "25"(STRING). This is my fault
> because the comments of variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials' have said
> clearly: `port' an integar. However, I think for a newbie he will miss
> this just like me. How I found this secret? When I was reading
> *smtpmail debug info* buffer I noticed that in a line there was
> something like `port=nil', and I knew something is wrong with the
> port. I don't know why the designer/programmer cannot internally
> convert the type of string to integer. The port number 25 looks odd in
> such a line, all the other three are string: ("smtp.bar.org" 25 "foo"
> "bar"). And nnimap-stream and nnimap-authenticator have the same
> problems, ;-)

Silly problem, should be easy to fix.

However, if you use M-x customize-variable RET
smtpmail-auth-credentials RET, I believe it would be impossible to mix
up integer with strings.  Sadly, it often seems like new users doesn't
use customize, even though I think it would be good.

> I have to talk about imap problem. I have wasted one day on it until I
> googled Gnus 5.10.6 is much better than 5.9.0 and something like `No
> Gnus'. I don't know what `No Gnus' stands for and I just want to try
> last time for the f**king imap problem. Well, it works. Upgrading from
> 5.9.0 to 5.10.6 is the solution and I don't need to try VM or come
> back to Opera M2, ;-). What's the problem with 5.9.0? is it a bug? Why
> can't i find it in google or newsgroup? You have read my gnus.el and
> you know it is very very simple. So maybe somebody can reproduce it
> and if not, _maybe_ I could give you my user&password pair in our mail
> server, ;-).

Gnus 5.9 is old, it doesn't do many things as well as Gnus 5.10 or No
Gnus.