From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14009 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Problems incorporating old mail Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:10:13 +0800 Message-ID: <87d3vrld8a.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276668638 21759 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2010 06:10:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:10:38 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 16 08:10:37 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OOlpd-00031U-2P for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:10:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38560 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OOlpc-0000ue-Af for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:10:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51973 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OOlpT-0000t4-Ub for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:10:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OOlpS-0002mF-P5 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:41606) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OOlpS-0002m6-Ds for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:10:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OOlpO-0002tN-Fp for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:10:22 +0200 Original-Received: from 123.121.197.229 ([123.121.197.229]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:10:22 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 123.121.197.229 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:10:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.121.197.229 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xU0bs0D9KO1+ADNNzAr40W7bG7Y= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14009 Archived-At: Hello, I've more or less moved my entire email/contacts setup into gnus/bbdb, and am loving it -- everything seems to work as expected. I'm having difficulty moving my old mail into gnus, however, in particular saving Evolution mailboxes as mbox files and then importing them into gnus. Some of the mailboxes have come in fine, others have a peculiar error where a mailbox of several hundred messages will be read as a nndoc group of six or seven messages: 400 messages will get crammed into one "message", with a couple of stragglers left over. The mega-message displays as only the first of the incorporated messages, with the rest of them I think interpreted as some sort of MIME part. The stragglers, in many cases, are repeat copies of the offending message, some as standalone messages, some with (1 part) in the mode line (but displaying identical contents). I've looked at the mbox files and the only thing that stands out is that the offending messages (the ones that slurp up all the others) all have MIME types of multipart/alternative. I have no idea if that's significant, but there is it. I tried setting gnus-mime-display-multipart-alternative-as-mixed to true, on the offchance that that might do something, but no dice. Can anyone recommend a solution to this? I realize that multipart/alternative might be a red herring (though it seems likely to be related to MIME somehow), and would be happy to provide any other information that might be helpful… Thanks very much! Eric