From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/21767 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: bad (i.e. serious) mail problems Date: 04 Mar 1999 12:50:25 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159810 24635 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:23:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:23:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA26555 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 15:52:58 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB09186; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:51:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 04 Mar 1999 14:51:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA04258 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:51:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mtiwmhc06.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc06.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.41]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA26505 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 15:51:05 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from reader.newsguy.com ([12.72.160.206]) by mtiwmhc06.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.07 118 124) with ESMTP id <19990304205008.LLOO22271@reader.newsguy.com> for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:50:08 +0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.newsguy.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA01558; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 12:50:26 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Shane Holder's message of "04 Mar 1999 14:24:31 -0600" Original-Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070073 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.73) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21767 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21767 Shane Holder writes: > >>>>> "Shane" == Shane Holder writes: > > >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Lars> Shane Holder writes: > > >>> I don't think so because if I do C-u I get articles, but still > >>> missing the new article. And I just got another article in that > >>> group, and it shows up. So, I've got articles before and after an > >>> article that doesn't show up in the summary buffer. > > Lars> Hm. Is there anything odd about the headers of the article > Lars> that doesn't show up? Is it a duplicate, for instance? > > Shane> Not a duplicate, but a `>' got inserted in front of one of > Shane> the From headers. When I deleted this character the article > Shane> showed up in the summary. When I looked at the > Shane> Incoming... file it did not contain this character. Now, I > Shane> suppose you're thinking well when I edited the file somehow > Shane> this got inserted, which is possible, but I didn't edit the > Shane> nnfolder file until I realized that something strange was > Shane> going on. > > I just had this happen again, still under .79. I searched through my > nnfolder mail.misc file and noticed that there were about 3 other > articles that had a > in front of the From header. Hope this isn't off the wall but, could this be done by what ever application is retrieving your mail? (assuming Gnus is not) Mail handling apps put a (>) in front of all lines beginning with "From" to avoid confusing them with the Unix format line beginning with "From" but no colon. -- Harry Putnam Running Redhat Linux 5.2