[9fans] Gmail and upas
Hello all, firstly let me mention that I'm pretty stoked about using Plan 9. I've been using it for about a week now, and things are coming along well. I'm having a bit of an issue, and it may entirely stem from my lack of familiarity on the system, so I apologize in advance if this turns out to be a silly problem: When I throw upas/fs -f /imaps/imap.gmail.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] into my profile, (after the plumber, before I start rio; as per the suggestion regarding mail on the wiki), I get a ludicrous amount of errors after a while akin to this: download 1768: i/o error: i/o on hungup channel download 1769: i/o error: i/o on hungup channel download 1770: i/o error: i/o on hungup channel download 1771: i/o error: i/o on hungup channel Et cetera. I did have copious amounts of mail in this box, somewhere in the neighborhood of 3500. When I first ran this procedure, it worked pretty well, albeit it slowly (3500 is a lot of messages to go through). I got some similar messages, but I was able to access my mail, and my machine seemed to run just fine. I used gmail's web interface to clean out about 2000 of those mails, and rebooted the system. Now, with these errors, the system grinds to a halt and there is no responsiveness to speak of. If any of you folks have any constructive suggestions, I certainly appreciate the input. I perused various manpages and tried to dig through the archives here, but haven't seen a problem quite like mine. Thanks in advance, Sid
Re: [9fans] Gmail and upas
I'm quite impressed by the horde of responses this has garnered in little more than 15 hours, I thank everyone for their help. I have not yet tried nupas, but have gotten a reasonable solution working. It appeared that while I was tweaking my setup (and rebooting often, causing upas to re-download thousands of messages over and over again) gmail decided I was a bot and gave me a SECTOR 4 LOCKDOWN, a temporary status when an account is being used too much that prevents access. With a little patience I rebooted my machine in the morning and went to class. After class I came home to a brilliant display of faces and acme-mail goodness. So my solution, albeit temporary, causes long boot times (and prevents me from having to reboot a ton (at least without first removing the box from the interblarg). But, given that this machine is intended to stay up for extended periods of time, I don't forsee that as an issue. Maybe once I've really gotten a stronger feel for things I'll dedicate a machine and just import /mail to my terminal. Using pop3 access would eliminate this issue altogether, but I'm sure all you plan9gmailers out there already know that gmail is a little wonky with upas, due to gmail's nonconformity in forcing pop clients into thinking that they are removing the server-side copy of the mail. Oh well, I'll spend some more time tweaking and breaking. That's the fun of it all. Also, Ruda, you can get gmail's web interface working with abaco, there's a patch you have to apply to webfs to get the cookies working correctly. For more information peruse the plan9 wiki, someone threw up a nice gmail page.
