From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/682 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Davis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Using fetchmail with gnus (on Windows) Date: 26 Jun 2002 19:12:38 +0000 Organization: Pageflex Inc. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667630 7961 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:33:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:33:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:57 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsreader.wustl.edu!stl-feed.news.verio.net!news.cmnh.org!phl-feed.news.verio.net!news.bitstream.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.103.147.252 Original-X-Trace: news.bitstream.com 1025122396 25937 199.103.147.252 (26 Jun 2002 20:13:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: sysops@bitstream.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jun 2002 20:13:16 GMT X-Face: @Pq3?My0v;TPXbg}b;pHV{1I-kH,?FV:1$wMunQgt%u;KIx8Jl%)8E;Tag?jQQu4+Q,/QiTe@x!bk'k@uXGAj?wVZSBSj}T1X}Yql~e]uv@#]I>5F:BJ;+\k5B&3hG3ZT8_{3>#[D)SbK/9t&3TG$L7SnV3G User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:822 Original-Lines: 30 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 822 Tue Jan 17 17:27:57 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:682 Archived-At: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > Peter Davis wrote: > > Can't anyone tell me what format the 'file' mail-source is supposed to > > be? Or how to get gnus to read it? The info on mail source > > specifiers does not describe this at all. > > It seems to be in the right format. You could try stepping through > nnmail-get-new-mail or mail-source-fetch-file. Thanks, Paul. Unfortunately, I'm pretty much of a lisp novice, and have never stepped through code before. Still, I may give this a go if I can figure it out. Meanwhile, I'm starting to suspect that gnus is never finding the file at all, since it gives the exact same message whether I specify an existing spool file or a non-existent file. Thanks, -pd -- -------- Peter Davis Funny stuff at http://www.pfdstudio.com The artwork formerly shown as prints List of resources for children's writers and illustrators at: http://www.pfdstudio.com/cwrl.html