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* Trouble incorporating new mail
@ 1997-01-22 16:38 Richard Taylor
  1997-01-23  9:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Richard Taylor @ 1997-01-22 16:38 UTC (permalink / raw)




I have just moved from using a Solaris machine to using an OSF1
machine and I have a slight problem.

I use nnml to read and split my mail, this has been working fine for
months but when I try it on the OSF1 machine all I get is lots of
messages in the minibuffer (included below). The mail spool is not
touched and no mail arrives in my mail groups :-(

I was using gnus-5.35, I have now upgraded to gnus-5.40 but still get
the same problem.

The Machine is a DEC Alpha OSF1 V4.0

Does anyone have any ideas what is going wrong here.

Richard



Output in minibuffer:

Checking new news...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
Checking new news...done

-- 

			------------------------------
Richard Taylor, N129, DRA Malvern, St Andrews Rd, Malvern, Worcs. WR14 3PS. UK.
   Tel: +44 1684 896028; Fax: +44 1684 894303; Email: rjt@rivers.dra.hmg.gb


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* Re: Trouble incorporating new mail
  1997-01-22 16:38 Trouble incorporating new mail Richard Taylor
@ 1997-01-23  9:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1997-01-23  9:13 UTC (permalink / raw)


Richard Taylor <rjt@rivers.dra.hmg.gb> writes:

> I use nnml to read and split my mail, this has been working fine for
> months but when I try it on the OSF1 machine all I get is lots of
> messages in the minibuffer (included below). The mail spool is not
> touched and no mail arrives in my mail groups :-(

[...]

> nnml: Reading incoming mail...
> Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...
> nnml: Reading incoming mail...
> Getting mail from /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt...

Perhaps there are some problems while reading the spool file?  Can you
run movemail on the file manually?  That is:

$ movemail /usr/var/spool/mail/rjt ~/my-mail

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen


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