Spurious IMAP warnings
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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VM |
Fix Released
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Low
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Uday Reddy |
Bug Description
First, a minor compilation problem from your obsessive user :-)
Symbol's function definition is void: hack-dir-
make[1]: *** [vm-autoloads.el] Error 255
make: *** [all] Error 1
also, perhaps more interesting: I recently see many instances of a message "Warning: Only basic message flags available for the mailbox". That by itself is no big deal, although I am not completely sure what this means exactly, perhaps some additional explanation would help the ignorant user such as me.
More importantly, I see these messages while not reading mail, when just editing. it seems that vm is querying the imap server in the background to see if there is mail? This also seems to lead to freezing of emacs for a few seconds sometimes. there doesn't seem to be any benefit to this, as the mail status on teh mode line is not shown or updated unless I actually have vm open and am looking at the presentation/ summary buffers. would be nice to get rid of these freezes if they are indeed related to vm...
cheers, E
Related branches
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status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
tags: | added: 8.1 |
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status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
mere user writes:
> Public bug reported: local-variables -non-file- buffer
>
> First, a minor compilation problem from your obsessive user :-)
>
> Symbol's function definition is void: hack-dir-
> make[1]: *** [vm-autoloads.el] Error 255
> make: *** [all] Error 1
Hi Eli, that looks like a problem with your Emacs version. I don't
get this error.
> also, perhaps more interesting: I recently see many instances of a
> message "Warning: Only basic message flags available for the mailbox".
> That by itself is no big deal, although I am not completely sure what
> this means exactly, perhaps some additional explanation would help the
> ignorant user such as me.
Funny. That message has been there since Jan 2008! I will check.
> More importantly, I see these messages while not reading mail, when just
> editing. it seems that vm is querying the imap server in the background
> to see if there is mail? This also seems to lead to freezing of emacs
> for a few seconds sometimes. there doesn't seem to be any benefit to
> this, as the mail status on teh mode line is not shown or updated unless
> I actually have vm open and am looking at the presentation/ summary
> buffers. would be nice to get rid of these freezes if they are indeed
> related to vm...
Please check the variable vm-mail- check-interval. The default value
is 5 minutes, but my personal setting is nil.
Cheers,
Uday