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On 09 Jan 2001 15:38:26 -0500, Nick Papadonis <nick@coelacanth.com> said:

>> Nick Papadonis <nick@coelacanth.com> writes:
>>> 
>>> I had the following problem after GNUS/Xemacs crashed on me today.
>>> When trying to start GNUS again I had the following error and
>>> backtrace:

[tried to recover from root's /.emacs-mail-crash-box]

I've seen this too. My workaround was to symlink from root's crashbox
to myown, then startup gnus. Ick, feep, hacker!


>>> Doing a 'touch ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box allowed me to finally start
>>> it fine.

Hmmm... never tried that. Why does it work? did it get your crashed mail?


>> Are you using more than one mail source?

Nick> Nope just this to get stuff from procmail dir:

        (setq 
              gnus-secondary-select-methods
              '((nnml ""))                      ; Incoming Mail
              nnml-get-new-mail t
              mail-sources
              '((directory
                 :path "~/incoming/"
                 :suffix "")))

Hmmm, I am doing something very similar:

    (setq mail-sources
          '(
            (directory
             :path		"~/ProcMail/"
             :suffix	"")
          ))
    (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods	'((nnml ""))
    )