From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/898 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ichimusai Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Bug? Empty From: field in mail generates elisp error whet POPing mail. Date: 09 Aug 2002 16:32:48 +0200 Organization: ichimusai.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667770 8863 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:36:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:36:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:17 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.algonet.se!algonet!news2.tninet.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Sender: krikkit@algonet.invalid Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: wilhelmina.algonet.se Original-X-Trace: green.tninet.se 1028903615 25778 194.213.75.170 (9 Aug 2002 14:33:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@telenordia.se Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:33:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Home-Page: http://www.ichimusai.org/ X-PGP: Key ID: 1024D/930B07E8, Valid to: 2002-07-05, Fingerprint: D42D B550 2D76 4FE9 5E2D 3B99 2FD7 69DF 930B 07E8, Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1038 Original-Lines: 33 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1038 Tue Jan 17 17:28:17 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:898 Archived-At: Recently I have received a great number of UCE/SPAM with the From: field blank and this is upsetting my Gnus when I POP mail from my ISPs mailbox. Unfortunately the elisp message has scrolled out from my buffer so I can not paste it here properly, but as I understand it (although my elisp knowledge is rather limited) one of the functions called when POPing reports an empty string and the process fails and sits there. If there are a few mails that are okay first in the POP box, they will be downloaded, splitted and that works, but when it encounters this malformed message it stops and gives up. I run Gnus v5.8.8 in GNU emacs 20.7.1 compiled for i386 (Red Hat Linux distro 7.2). Is there a work around for this somehow or should I upgrade to a new version of GNUS? I have been looking a little at Oort but I am afraid I need to read up a lot more before I can do the transition without running into any problems with my old .gnus settings. Anyway, my temporary solution so far has been to use my ISPs web mail to log in and remove the offending message, then I press 'g' from the groups buffer and everything works fine. Have a nice weekend fellas! :) -- AA#769 ICQ: 1645566 Yahoo & MSN: Ichimusai http://www.ichimusai.org/ Support the ASCII ribbon campaign - No HTML, RTF or MS Word in mail Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary The ringing of the division bell had begun -- Pink Floyd, High Hopes