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Subject: Re: retrieving mail from mailbox error
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In-Reply-To: <eywv8d18y0.fsf@video.uic.vsu.ru> (Vladimir Volovich's message of "22 Apr 2001 15:16:07 +0400")
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Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vsu.ru> writes:

> "VV" == Vladimir Volovich writes:
> 
>  VV> when i'm trying to receive new mail, gnus produces an error
>  VV> message when it tries to extract mail from my mailbox
>  VV> (/var/mail/vvv):
> 
>  VV> Mail source error ((error Format specifier doesn't match argument
>  VV> type)).  Continie? (yes or no)
> 
>  VV> if the mailbox is empty, no error occurs; otherwise the above
>  VV> error is displayed.
> 
>  VV> could you please help?
> 
> some details:
> 
>   yes-or-no-p("Mail source error ((error Format specifier doesn't match argument type)).  Continue? ")
>   byte-code("..." [err yes-or-no-p format "Mail source error (%s).  Continue? " error "Cannot get new mail." 0] 4)
>   mail-source-fetch((file :path "/var/mail/vvv") (lambda (file orig-file) (nnmail-split-incoming file (quote nnml-save-mail) (quote nil) (if ... nil ...) (quote nnml-active-number))))

Maybe it is because movemail aborts abnormally. Could you check out
the CVS version and try it again.

ShengHuo