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Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> writes:

> Something I did (^g?) caused email mail slurping from ~/Mailbox to
> fail and it apparently created an .emacs-crash-mail-box. I didn't
> notice this at the time so I may not have the name quite
> right. Anyway, I've occasionally seen this before and emacs figures
> it out the next time I go to read mail.
> 
> There was a next time I wanted to read mail, and I tried, but Gnus
> complained with a message like "Cannot create /gnus-emacs-crashbox"
> (again, I probably don't have the name right, it went away.)
> 
> Note that it's trying to put it in "/", that part I am quoting
> correctly :-). So it failed, and repeated attempts also failed,
> naturally. 
> 
> I ended up removing the .emacs-crash-mail-box by hand (after reading
> all the messages "by hand") and now gnus is happy again. But is it
> trying to put crash boxes in the wrong dir, guessing the user home dir
> wrong?

What is your operating system? What is the value of mail-sources?

Does it help to change the value of mail-source-crash-box to a path
name without "~"?

ShengHuo