bug#17686: 24.3; fetching mail in gnus -vs- erc

[Tom Tromey]

I somewhat regularly experience an unfortunate interaction between gnus
and erc.

I use fetchmail to download mail to my machine.  Then I tell gnus to
pull this into nnmail groups.

I also use ERC.

If I have a lot of email (thousands of messages) pending, and then start
ERC and only after that start gnus, then the ERC connection will time
out while gnus processes the mail.  This logs me out of the irc server.

I don't see why this has to happen.  Perhaps gnus and/or emacs could
ensure that the ERC process gets called while importing the email.




In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.9)
 of 2014-05-21 on buildvm-07.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Windowing system distributor `Fedora Project', version 11.0.11404000
Configured using:
 `configure '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu'
 '--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix='
 '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr'
 '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc'
 '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include'
 '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec'
 '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib'
 '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-dbus'
 '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff'
 '--with-xft' '--with-xpm' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' '--with-gpm=no'
 'build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu'
 'host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g
 -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
 -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4
 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro ''

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.utf8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Group

Minor modes in effect:
  gnus-undo-mode: t
  erc-list-mode: t
  erc-menu-mode: t
  erc-autojoin-mode: t
  erc-ring-mode: t
  erc-pcomplete-mode: t
  erc-track-mode: t
  erc-track-minor-mode: t
  erc-match-mode: t
  erc-button-mode: t
  erc-fill-mode: t
  erc-stamp-mode: t
  erc-netsplit-mode: t
  erc-spelling-mode: t
  erc-truncate-mode: t
  erc-status-mode: t
  erc-services-mode: t
  erc-networks-mode: t
  erc-irccontrols-mode: t
  erc-noncommands-mode: t
  erc-move-to-prompt-mode: t
  erc-readonly-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-c r C-g C-h i SPC C-z n <help-echo> <C-left> C-e 
<switch-frame> C-z n <f10> C-z n C-z n <f10> C-z n 
n n n n q C-h f g n u - <backspace> s - n o <tab> - 
s e r <tab> <return> C-h i t C-s g n u s - n o - C-s 
s e r v e r C-a q C-x 1 C-z n C-c C-SPC <switch-frame> 
C-z n t h e SPC p C-a C-k y e a h , SPC t h e SPC p 
r o b l e m C-a C-k I S-SPC t h i n k SPC w e ' r e 
SPC o n <M-backspace> <M-backspace> C-/ C-e o n SPC 
p r e t t y SPC s o l i d SPC g r o u d n SPC C-b C-b 
C-t C-e w h e n SPC w e SPC t a k l SPC a b o u t SPC 
t h e SPC p r o b l e m s . M-b M-b M-b C-b C-b C-t 
C-e SPC SPC t h e y SPC a r e SPC r e a l . SPC SPC 
h o <M-backspace> M-b M-f C-e M-a M-k C-a C-k t h a 
n k s SPC m j w <return> I SPC w a s n ' t SPC s u 
r e SPC i f SPC I SPC w a n t <backspace> <backspace> 
s SPC j u s t SPC C-a C-k C-c C-SPC <switch-frame> 
C-v C-v C-v M-v M-v M-v M-x g n u s - n o <tab> <return> 
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> C-z n <f10> <f10> <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> M-x r e p o r t - e m 
<tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Reading active file from private via nnml...done
Reading active file via nnml...
Opening nnml server...done
Reading active file via nnml...done
Reading active file via nndraft...done
Checking new news...done
Connecting to irc-2.devel.redhat.com:6667... ...done
Logging in as 'tromey'...
Logging in without password
Logging in as 'tromey'... done

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Tom