From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus corrupt mailbox w/ nnml
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:46:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9d4vfvtpf.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6b4a2050710160659r42401f46k8c1004d5668bd9eb@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 16 2007, Kyle Sexton wrote:
> fetchmail -> procmail -> Inbox.spool
You meant "Work.spool"?
> When I try to start Gnus I get an error:
>
> Error, unknown mail format! (Possibly corrupted buffer ` *nnmail
> incoming*'.)
>
> I then get stuck w/ an ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box, but whatever I do I
> can't actually view the messages. I ran the file command on the spool
> and got the following back:
>
> Work.spool: ASCII mail text
The error occurs if Gnus can't find "^From " in the spool file.
Please show us the (anonymized) output of "head -n1 Work.spool".
It should look like this:
| From ttttttt@mmmmmm.invalid Tue Oct 16 08:50:06 2007
> Here's the contents of my procmailrc and .gnus
[...]
> # Catchall to the inbox
> :0:
> /home/user/.incoming/Work.spool
>
> .gnus
> (setq
> gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml ""))
> mail-sources '((directory :path "~/.incoming/" :suffix ".spool"))
> mail-source-delete-incoming t
> )
Setting `mail-source-delete-incoming' to t or a number during testing
might be a good idea.
Which version of Gnus are you using?
Bye, Reiner.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-16 13:59 Kyle Sexton
2007-10-16 17:46 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2007-10-16 21:06 ` Kyle Sexton
2007-10-16 21:18 ` Reiner Steib
2007-10-17 17:39 ` Kyle Sexton
2007-10-17 18:39 ` Reiner Steib
[not found] ` <mailman.2162.1192568814.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2007-10-21 16:35 ` Sven Bretfeld
2007-10-22 19:52 ` Kyle Sexton
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