Re: Found no mail! [sgnus 0.17]

[Erik Selberg <speed@cs.washington.edu>]

Steven L Baur writes:

> The patch you posted to the list solves the wrong problem too late.
> Having a zero length file in nnmail-process-unix-mail-format means
> that nnmail-prepare-incoming-hook has already been called on it *and*
> the prior zero-length checks have been botched.

I don't know about prior zero-length hooks, but my
nnmail-prepare-incoming-hook is nil. Perhaps there's a problem?

> I do see a problem with symbolic links to spool files.  I have been
> unable to make that [mis]feature work at all.  Eg. a symbolic link to
> either a zero length file, or to a file containing valid mail is
> missed in the spool scan *and* a specific M-g scan.  This behavior is
> identical under both XEmacs 19.13 and Emacs 19.30.

curious; my spool file is a symbolic link. Perhaps ding is not reading
it as such?

> The question is why do they work/bomb for you at all?

> The first place to look is ange FTP, since it has weird hooks into all
> the file checks.

> What version of ange FTP are you using?  You should be using the
> version supplied with Emacs.  Check every directory in your load-path
> to be sure.

> Are you using file names with colons in them?

I'm using standard emacs 19.30; I took ange-ftp out of my local libs
when 19 was available on our system. No colons or nuthin either. 

-Erik