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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is gnus not slurping *.in files
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 19:13:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efslxzcu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87379240c2.fsf@local.lan>

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> 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/<any mbox files ending in *.in>
>
> 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.

I don't have any idea why that might be happening, but do try edebugging
the function `nnmail-get-new-mail-1' and seeing what happens. Follow the
function through and see if anything strikes you as weird.

Sorry not to be more helpful...

Eric



      reply	other threads:[~2017-08-09  2:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-08 14:10 Harry Putnam
2017-08-09  2:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]

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