[Bug: 21.4.18] startls gets stuck

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Uwe" == Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> writes:

    Uwe> The odd thing is that everything seems to work, I am asked
    Uwe> for the password, then the gmail smtp mail server sends the
    Uwe> mail, *but* then gnus (and xemacs) gets stuck: the last
    Uwe> message which appears is something like:

    Uwe> 250 2.0.0 OK 1154349802 o45sm7514984nfa

Sounds like an smtpmail bug to me.  :-P  Seriously, Gmail gave the
protocol reply to say it's done, XEmacs posts it to the buffer, so the
first guess is that smtpmail is waiting for something that never comes
(eg, due to an overly strict regexp in the comint filter).  If Simon
says not, I guess he's in the best position to diagnose since he knows
the internals of smtpmail best.

    Uwe> Any help is appreciated, sending works but archiving not and
    Uwe> I am not sure whether this is a bug or a wrong setting.

You still have the mail in the buffer (and for Gnus, in the draft
folder), right?  If not, that's a bug.  However, whether the archiving
to the FCC folder happens or not is a design decision; as far as the
MUA knows, the mail was not successfully posted, so the transaction is
still active.  The MUA should preserve the message *somewhere*, but
it's up to the MUA to decide how and where to do that.  Some users
might get annoyed if their archives got cluttered up with duplicates
in cases where the mail *did* fail and they had to resent.

    Uwe> According to Simon Josefsson the author of smtpmail.el this
    Uwe> seems to be an (X)Emacs bug.

So, Simon, what do you think is going wrong?  Or are you just in a
hurry to go skydiving? ;-)


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