From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69222 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Loosing mails by merging Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:01:17 +0100 Message-ID: <87iqcyb6xe.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: <87ocmyrw3a.fsf@an-dro.enstb.org> <87d43bk6rt.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <877htfdd7g.fsf@an-dro.enstb.org> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259186504 8339 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2009 22:01:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:01:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, bugs@gnus.org To: Ronan Keryell Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17627@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Nov 25 23:01:37 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NDPvd-0004Eu-5l for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:01:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NDPvT-0008NO-0p; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:01:27 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NDPvR-0008N6-Kb for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:01:25 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NDPvQ-0005Ge-1F for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:01:25 -0600 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1NDPvP-0002ui-00; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:01:23 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.175]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nAPM1LNa028556; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:01:21 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F65A1D180; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:01:21 +0100 (CET) X-Face: 'bg&jY[8V'W&:=~6w"|>}#4/T;w~36ei4NNMyKRR.a$n=$|sWFPF1y]a\>6kc\*#GN]UDM| Ywv,vbL^XF1nIp\:F=$Ei2o&mEe:%N~,:3]vtQ~s9u$9izmX$IF@VgGl7/,^dbuM<3|AO2}.%|%?kZ 2Y=@\U!~cll^=8Z9ihKq%wmUe1Ky(#kl3T'>Qk0Ia3mCBsTk?E(,X Mail-Followup-To: Ronan Keryell , ding@gnus.org, bugs@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <877htfdd7g.fsf@an-dro.enstb.org> (Ronan Keryell's message of "Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:50:27 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-dcc1.aftenposten.no-Metrics: poseidon 1215; Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69222 Archived-At: On Tue, Nov 24 2009, Ronan Keryell wrote: >>>>>> Reiner Steib said: > > Reiner> You're talking about doing something like `G f GNUS-bug.mbox > Reiner> RET' (gnus-group-make-doc-group), right? > > Not only. > > Reiner> Use `C-u G f m GNUS-bug.mbox RET' instead. > > Reiner> When catting your sample file to $MAIL, I get the expected > Reiner> result. > > Yes, with this I can read my mail correctly as a mbox format. > > So the good news is that GNUS can do it. :-) > > The bad news is that means that G f does not guess the good format. That's a known problem because it not possible to do it correct in any case, IIRC. > The very bad news for me is that I have this issue on my normal mail, > not only file group. If you cat your sample file to $MAIL, say ... cat GNUS-bug.mbox >> /var/mail/you ... do you get 2 messages or 1 after `g'? I get 2 as expected. > I get my mail with some: > (setq mail-sources '( > ;; Pick mail in the local mail repository, > ;; if mail is lost here or droped by other means... > (file) Try with a simple setup like ... (setq mail-sources '((file))) ... first. > ;; get some remote mail in the local mail repository: > (file :prescript "fdm -l -v fetch") > ;; Pick mail in the central mail repository: > (file :prescript "ssh info bin/recup_mail --fetch >%t" > :postscript "ssh info bin/recup_mail --archive") > )) > > So basically almost everything lands into my /var/mail/keryell and is > digested by Gnus. But then this bug means that it is not read with the > correct mbox format? > > I've read again the "Mail Source Specifiers" section and around of the > manual and there is no way to enforce the format as being a mbox one... It should work by default. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/