From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/34175 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Papadonis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: emacs-mail-crashbox bug? Date: 09 Jan 2001 17:24:13 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <2nhf399waq.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035170150 29020 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:15:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:15:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ShengHuo ZHU , ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C23D049E for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:24:53 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB20191; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:24:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 09 Jan 2001 16:23:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA09611 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:23:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from h0050bad6338d.ne.mediaone.net (h0050bad6338d.ne.mediaone.net [24.91.116.11]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD60CD049E for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:24:13 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from nick@localhost) by h0050bad6338d.ne.mediaone.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA02644; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:24:13 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: h0050bad6338d.ne.mediaone.net: nick set sender to nick@coelacanth.com using -f Original-To: Chris Shenton In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 35 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34175 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34175 I did the same awhile back! Don't know why the second method worked, but it did. >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Shenton writes: > [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 "")) ) -- - Nick