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From: Al Arduengo <exal@austin.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: mail-sources: %t has invalid value
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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.