From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9751 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Gnus corrupt mailbox w/ nnml Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:46:04 +0200 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192560061 17461 80.91.229.12 (16 Oct 2007 18:41:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:41:01 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 16 20:41:02 2007 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 1IhrLh-0007FC-S3 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:41:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhrLa-0008Lx-RI for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:40:54 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 46 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1192557424 01 16130 gZzB1rS1VuQ26Zl 071016 17:57:04 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: V95MfEZ-weuQtuKourly+98yoLuWoLAseXP5LICaU+gCodut0CcoE+ X-Face: #vK]N[`vqjuod*|)'[iD7/"3AB-ApT%fmN"LWAg@oS7OesGv~)n[OBTLM#I="J'Y^-7I I/ps7o_'IK@#-Rs{::DZ@O8yS|fexe,XslY[:dNWOb~>?mC-&i_c)say:"\IpA.5U.b]'NY; Pks{lb h.+#6%DpZuaK3dcHB`Av3zc:r!C%~s0&m, tWj]&}, qg.+0ww2gK%f!:GK|wMl.I!(voY*1"^li8"~B BNG)9LvPi?^DMR-GVDnZqhu*3Hi, +g=wFhI)BL6&u{EOVEHjVEVq~d?_}lMntWAc3(6?kftjc>_f>! g0wM(qPM$d5]^TT_Qyi&L?LGVG)SHN;Gk/,pkY9,~ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2Wa/sWOE5cF3M83B093gJi9zRVI= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:79956 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:9751 Archived-At: 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/