From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/13190 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francis Moreau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: New issue: emails get stuck in Mail/Incoming* files Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256852427 9537 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2009 21:40:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:40:27 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 29 22:40:20 2009 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 4.50) id 1N3cjD-0002rR-6g for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:40:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36116 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3cjC-0001ov-HR for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:40:18 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!y23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 59 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.235.205.153 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1256851706 10224 127.0.0.1 (29 Oct 2009 21:28:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:28:26 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.235.205.153; posting-account=ekTE0goAAADiVCThPmo4ph0C5bTUhQOx User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090905 Fedora/3.0.14-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.14, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:83563 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:13190 Archived-At: Hello Tassilo, On Oct 29, 7:53=A0pm, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Francis Moreau writes: > > Hi Francis, > > > All my emails (fetched by fetchmail into /var/spool directory) are > > moved by Gnus to Mail/Incoming* files, > > I can explain that: > > ,----[ (info "(gnus)Gnus Development") ] > | =A0 =A0Some variable defaults differ between alpha Gnusae and released > | Gnusae, in particular, `mail-source-delete-incoming'. =A0This is to > | prevent lossage of mail if an alpha release hiccups while handling the > | mail. > `---- > > ,----[ C-h v mail-source-delete-incoming RET ] > | mail-source-delete-incoming is a variable defined in `mail-source.el'. > | Its value is 10 > | > | Documentation: > | If non-nil, delete incoming files after handling. > | If t, delete immediately, if nil, never delete. =A0If a positive number= , delete > | files older than number of days. > | > | Removing of old files happens in `mail-source-callback', i.e. no > | old incoming files will be deleted unless you receive new mail. > | You may also set this variable to nil and call > | `mail-source-delete-old-incoming' interactively. > `---- > > ,----[ C-h v mail-source-incoming-file-prefix RET ] > | mail-source-incoming-file-prefix is a variable defined in `mail-source.= el'. > | Its value is "Incoming" > | > | Documentation: > | Prefix for file name for storing incoming mail > `---- > Yes, I already set mail-source-delete-incoming to nil since I don't want to loose any emails until this problem is fixed. > > but now they don't appear anymore in my Inbox group. It looks like the split process, the one which deliver each email to the right group is not working/called anymore. This might be due to an unexpected power-off that leads to a corruption of a Gnus' file or something similar. Do you have an idea, how I can debug this ? Thanks