Re: strange warning message. Mail source (file) failed: (error Cannot get new mail)

[Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>]

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>>> "AS" == Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:

> Uwe writes:
>> After restarting emacs and gnus I received a message saying
>> 
>> Mail source (file) failed: (error Cannot get new mail)
>> 
>> But everything seems to be fine, what is the reason for this message

> mail-sources defaults to ((file)), which means Gnus will try fetching
> email from the local file system (/var/mail/LOGIN on most machines):

> ,----[ C-h v mail-sources RET ]
> | mail-sources is a variable defined in ‘mail-source.el’.
> | Its value is ((file) (imap :server "mail.koldfront.dk" :stream tls))
> | Original value was ((file))
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | Where the mail backends will look for incoming mail.
> | This variable is a list of mail source specifiers.
> | See Info node ‘(gnus)Mail Source Specifiers’.
> | 
> `----

> It sounds to me like that is failing in your setup, somehow.

Emacs should not do that, I only fetch from imap and gmane news servers.
This message never popped up?

But I can access my email via imap without problems. 

Very very strange..

Thanks

Uwe 

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