From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4255 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Erik Selberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Found no mail! [sgnus 0.17] Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 12:06:43 PST Message-ID: <199512042006.MAA29548@wally.cs.washington.edu> References: <199512032225.OAA12744@wally.cs.washington.edu> <199512040241.SAA20522@meitner.cs.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145027 28998 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:17:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:17:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA26997 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 12:54:04 -0800 Original-Received: from wally.cs.washington.edu (wally.cs.washington.edu [128.95.2.122]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 21:06:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wally.cs.washington.edu (8.7.2/7.2ws+) with SMTP id MAA29548; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 12:06:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: steve@miranova.com's message of 04 Dec 1995 11:32:57 -0800 Original-To: steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur) Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4255 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4255 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