From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88471 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Adam_Sj=C3=B8gren?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: strange warning message. Mail source (file) failed: (error Cannot get new mail) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 13:43:10 +0100 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <87lg0wh6sh.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> References: <87k1ggra6s.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="96220"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M36674@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Mar 30 13:44:13 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hADLI-000Osx-GB for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2019 13:44:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hADKc-0005NM-B1; Sat, 30 Mar 2019 07:43:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hADKV-0005JB-Tr for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 30 Mar 2019 07:43:23 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hADKT-0004UX-NA for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 30 Mar 2019 07:43:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hADKP-00025S-7r for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2019 13:43:20 +0100 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hADKN-000NtF-14 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2019 13:43:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ OpenPGP: id=476630590A231909B0A0961A49D0746121BDE416; url=https://asjo.koldfront.dk/gpg.asc Mail-Follow-Up-To: never X-Now-Playing: Gossamer, 2007-05-28 (live) (The Smashing Pumpkins) X-Face: )qY&CseJ?.:=8F#^~GcSA?F=9eu'{KAFfL1C3/A&:nE?PW\i65"ba0NS)97,Q(^@xk}n4Ou rPuR#V8I(J_@~H($[ym:`K_+]*kjvW>xH5jbgLBVFGXY:(#4P>zVBklLbdL&XxL\M)%T}3S/IS9lMJ ^St'=VZBR Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88471 Archived-At: 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. Best regards, Adam -- "Everything needs to change. Adam Sjøgren And it has to start today." asjo@koldfront.dk