From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53383 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Reports of corrupt mail on mail fetch Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:00:13 -0700 Organization: Still searching... Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1057852809 15496 80.91.224.249 (10 Jul 2003 16:00:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:00:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1927@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jul 10 18:00:04 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19adpz-00041d-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:00:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19adqP-0001EW-00; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:00:29 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19adqL-0001ER-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:00:25 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 6113 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2003 16:00:23 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6108 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2003 16:00:23 -0000 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (80.91.224.249) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 10 Jul 2003 16:00:23 -0000 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19adpV-0003xv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:59:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19adpP-0003wz-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:59:27 +0200 Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0ahdtrAOTNgLGVTzZfQTuAHs37w= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53383 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53383 Running a fairly recent v5.10.3. Lately I've been getting a message during mail/news fetch of corrupt unrecognized mail format: nnml: Reading incoming mail from directory... Mail source (directory :path /home/reader/spool/ :suffix .in) error (Error, unknown mail format! (Possibly corrupted buffer ` *nnmail incoming*'.)). Continue? (y or n) Doesn't occur on every fetch, or even most. But still fairly often. Checking ~/.emacs-mail-crashbox*, there will be a file with 1-5 bytes reported as size. 1-5 newlines inside. Deleting that file cures the problem for a while. The report doesn't seem to indicate what actual spool is involved. Unless it means the Inc* file which I have turned off, and have had it off for a very long time. Maybe I should turn it back on and see if something unusual is coming down the pipe. I thought maybe a renegade procmail recipe might do this. I change procmailrc very often. But reviewing verbose procmail log output I noticed nothing to catch my attention. Is there some way I can force gnus to give more complete info? Or in some way make a connection between actual incoming mail and those newlines? I guess setting debug on error until it happens again might get a backtrace, so trying that for now.