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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: reader <hput3@fastmail.fm>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus quit slurping mbox files with special [.in] suffix
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 11:12:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877deqfrez.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czopa54m.fsf@local.lan> (reader's message of "Thu, 30 Sep 2021 21:46:49 -0400")

reader <hput3@fastmail.fm> writes:

> (setq mail-sources
>       '((file :path "/var/spool/mail/reader")
>         (directory :path "/spool/in/"
>                    :suffix ".in")))
>
> In case anyone wonders... you see /spoo/ is at root (/) but the spool
> directory and its contents has owner:group of my user.  The list of
> mbox files in there all end `.in' and are chmod 600.

I think that looks like the correct syntax.  mail-source.el hasn't
changed since January 2021, so it's odd that this suddenly stopped
working.  Could you perhaps try edebugging through
mail-source-fetch-directory to see what's happening?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-06  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-01  1:46 reader
2021-10-06  9:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-10-08 20:31   ` hput

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