From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40071 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Matt Armstrong" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: thoughts on spam Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 09:55:23 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <874ro796v8.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> References: <87y9m9fs6b.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> <87wv192jzh.fsf_-_@mclinux.com> <861yjgbygz.fsf@duchess.twilley.org> <20011102235444.E9C73BD48@squeaker.lickey.com> <87n122s9k8.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> <87g07tgqeu.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> <871yjdc5wq.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175678 31282 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:47:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:47:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 26865 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2001 17:04:24 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 6 Nov 2001 17:04:24 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1619WH-0008RW-00; Tue, 06 Nov 2001 10:56:13 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 06 Nov 2001 10:55:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA18975 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:55:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 26666 invoked by alias); 6 Nov 2001 16:55:44 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26661 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2001 16:55:44 -0000 Original-Received: from hank.lickey.com (64.81.100.235) by gnus.org with SMTP; 6 Nov 2001 16:55:44 -0000 Original-Received: from squeaker.lickey.com (squeaker.lickey.com [192.168.100.10]) by hank.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 246F9EE34 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:55:28 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C082BD26 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:55:28 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9E665BD48; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:55:26 -0700 (MST) Original-To: Harry Putnam Mail-Followup-To: reader@newsguy.com, ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Harry Putnam's message of "Mon, 05 Nov 2001 22:51:55 -0800") Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.40/Python 1.5.2 (linux2) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20010714 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40071 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40071 Harry Putnam writes: > "Matt Armstrong" writes: > >> Neither of the above actions elicit any warnings when I do them, yet >> they leave stuff horribly broken. It was when I was trying these >> things out that I was losing mail (stuff was in the Incoming... files, >> but in none of the mail groups). > > "Stuff was in the Incoming..." Says it all. I think you've led > us a little astray. So no mail was lost then? The mail was preserved in the IncomingXXX files, yes, thanks to my having mail-source-delete-incoming set to nil. Gnus isn't off the hook though -- this is still a catastrophic failure on its part. -- matt