Re: Script output in mail-source directory :prescript

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Timo Lilja <timo.lilja@hut.fi> writes:

> Now, the problem is that if the get-mail-script has a non-zero exit or
> produces some output, nothing is shown in the Emacs buffers.

Try the following patch:

Index: mail-source.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/mail-source.el,v
retrieving revision 7.15
retrieving revision 7.16
diff -c -r7.15 -r7.16
*** mail-source.el	8 Feb 2006 04:17:15 -0000	7.15
--- mail-source.el	23 Apr 2006 14:09:14 -0000	7.16
***************
*** 678,689 ****
      (sleep-for delay)))
  
  (defun mail-source-call-script (script)
!   (let ((background nil))
      (when (string-match "& *$" script)
        (setq script (substring script 0 (match-beginning 0))
  	    background 0))
!     (call-process shell-file-name nil background nil
! 		  shell-command-switch script)))
  
  ;;;
  ;;; Different fetchers
--- 678,697 ----
      (sleep-for delay)))
  
  (defun mail-source-call-script (script)
!   (let ((background nil)
! 	(stderr (get-buffer-create " *mail-source-stderr*"))
! 	result)
      (when (string-match "& *$" script)
        (setq script (substring script 0 (match-beginning 0))
  	    background 0))
!     (setq result
! 	  (call-process shell-file-name nil background nil
! 			shell-command-switch script))
!     (when (and result
! 	       (not (zerop result)))
!       (set-buffer stderr)
!       (message "Mail source error: %s" (buffer-string)))
!     (kill-buffer stderr)))
  
  ;;;
  ;;; Different fetchers

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