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matteau@ca.ibm.com writes:

> Sorry to report the same question but I got no answer since I
> originally posted it (09/01) and Lars may have missed it in the huge
> volume of old postings...

Uhm, I think I answered this, but anyway...  :-)

> (setq mail-sources '(
>         (file :path "/matteau@matteau:/var/spool/mail/matteau")
>         ))

[...]

> I then get a movemail error. The backtrace is:

The problem is that Gnus uses the external movemail program to move
the mail.  It does not understand ange-ftp file names.  And even if it 
did, using it would be unsafe, because there's no way to do file
locking using ftp, which means that you would lose mail eventually.

Instead of doing it this way, I would suggest setting up a pop server
on the remote machine.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen