Re: Mail source unreachable - continue yes/no?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> We create a few custom error symbols for backend errors, including mail
> source failures, open-server failures, etc, and we put some
> condition-cases handling those errors in `gnus-get-unread-articles'.

This is called from nnmail-get-new-mail-1, though, which ignores errors
on its own.  `gnus-get-unread-articles' also has error-ignoring
capabilities and...

> They collect the errors, continue with the next server, and at the end
> of the process display a nice tidy message indicating which servers
> failed to connect.

... does just that, I think?  At least that's what happens when a server
fails for me.

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