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From: Al Arduengo <exal@austin.rr.com>
Subject: Re: mail-sources: %t has invalid value
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:54:23 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87he6uqjnz.fsf@austin.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3of12l2o7.fsf@wilson.rwth-aachen.de>

I would suspect that putting the path to mv in the postscript call. eg
'/bin/mv' or the like.

Rgds,
-Al

Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> Halloechen!
>
> In my .gnus it says
>
> (setq mail-sources
>       '((pop :server "acaxp.physik.rwth-aachen.de"
>              :user "***"
>              :password "***"
> 	     :postscript "mv -f %t /tmp/foo; formail -bs spamc < /tmp/foo > %t")
> ))
>
> (The :postscript is taken from gnus.pdf section 8.18.3.)
>
> The value of %t is "/home/bronger/.emacs-mail-crash-box" but this
> file doesn't exist during the :postscript command.  Thus the "mv"
> command fails (and with it the spamc call).
>
> What must I do to fix this?
>
> Tschoe,
> Torsten.


       reply	other threads:[~2003-06-13 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <m3of12l2o7.fsf@wilson.rwth-aachen.de>
2003-06-13 11:54 ` Al Arduengo [this message]
2003-06-15 16:33 ` Torsten Bronger
     [not found]   ` <84llw318f2.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
2003-06-17 13:49     ` Torsten Bronger

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