* Reports of corrupt mail on mail fetch
@ 2003-07-10 16:00 Harry Putnam
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From: Harry Putnam @ 2003-07-10 16:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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.
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