From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18676 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Why is gnus not slurping *.in files Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 10:10:21 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87379240c2.fsf@local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502201715 11975 195.159.176.226 (8 Aug 2017 14:15:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 14:15:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 08 16:15:11 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1df5Hq-0002r5-On for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:15:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42843 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1df5Hw-0006qM-Tv for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 10:15:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48392) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1df5Du-0002uG-1K for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 10:11:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1df5Dq-00011M-S2 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 10:11:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=52962 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1df5Dq-000103-L0 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 10:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1df5Da-0006F3-O3 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:10:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 52 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:jf9Na15xJ23uq4Dhd2fgXHJKyx4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "info-gnus-english" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18676 Archived-At: I've used this code in gnus for a very long time: (Bunched for mail) (setq mail-sources '((file :path "/var/spool/mail/reader") (directory :path "/home/reader/spool/in/" :suffix ".in"))) And gnus has faithfully slurped mail at /var/spool/mail/reader And from ~/spool/ I've moved operations to a new host and now when I tell gnus to scan news/mail (C-g) those files are ignored silently. Of course, I've checked to make sure those addresses are correct on the new host, and they are. How can I identify why the .gnus directive above is being silently ignored? One big thing that is different, is that I haven't yet moved my nnml directories to the new operation. But far as I remember when gnus slurps from the *.in files it creates like named nnml directories as needed. If it were a permissions problem somewhere surely gnus would issue some kind of warning/error. But what I see in \*Messages\* seems to indicate all is well: [...] Reading incoming mail from directory... Reading incoming mail from file... nnml: Reading incoming mail (no new mail)...done Reading incoming mail from directory... nnml: Reading incoming mail (no new mail)...done Reading incoming mail from directory... nnml: Reading incoming mail (no new mail)...done Reading incoming mail from directory... nnml: Reading incoming mail (no new mail)...done Reading active file via nnml...done Reading active file via nndraft...done Checking new news...done [...] Looking in ~/spool/in/*.in I see the mbox files have not been zero'ed out as they should have been, had they been read. Further, no nnml directories have been created either, so seems no reading is taking place... but silently as a ghost.