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--- Begin Message ---
Package: emacs21
Version: 21.1-1
Severity: important
Tags: sid
I split my mail with procmail, then use Gnus with various nnfolder settings
to read these different spools. Using Emacs 20 with Gnus 5.8.8 (from the
gnus package) this worked fine. However, I've installed Emacs 21,
with Gnus 5.9.0 (and apt-get remove --purge'd the gnus package) and now I
can no longer get mail.
Whenever Emacs tries to get the mail from the spool location and deliver
it to the nnfolder file, I get this message in the minibuffer:
movemail: (0 return). Continue? (yes or no)
It does this for every spool file that contains mail. No matter what I
reply to this question, I never see any new articles in my nnspool groups.
However, then I looked in *Messages* and I see stuff about a crash box and
articles being written to ~/Mail/misc; apparently all my mail is being
dumped in that one spot! Here are my *Messages*:
nnfolder: Reading incoming mail from directory...
nnfolder: Reading incoming mail (no new mail)...done
nnfolder: Reading incoming mail from directory...
Processing mail from ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box...
Saving file /opt/home/psmith/Mail/mail/misc...
Wrote /opt/home/psmith/Mail/mail/misc
nnfolder: Reading incoming mail (1 new)...done
I checked the permissions on the 21.1 movemail binary and they seem correct:
setgid mail (the same as the 20.7 version).
Ouch, this is a serious problem :-/.
I should point out that I've also used VM with this version of Emacs, and
VM _can_ obtain mail (and I'm sure it uses the same movemail program
that Gnus uses), so I don't think it's a movemail issue per se...?
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux lemming 2.4.2-2 #1 Fri Jul 6 20:31:17 EDT 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
ii dpkg 1.9.17 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii emacsen-common 1.4.13 Common facilities for all emacsen.
ii libc6 2.2.4-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libjpeg62 6b-1.3 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liblockfile1 1.03 NFS-safe locking library, includes
ii libncurses5 5.2.20010318-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng2 1.0.12-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libtiff3g 3.5.5-6 Tag Image File Format library
ii libungif4g 4.1-9 shared library for GIF images (run
ii libxaw6 4.1.0-5 X Athena widget set library (versi
ii xlibs 4.1.0-5 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.3-15 compression library - runtime
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: emacs21
Version: 21.2-1
>From the bug report logs I conclude that this bug had been discovered
and fixed upstream shortly after the release of Emacs 21.1. See the
thread starting at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2001-10/msg00561.html.
Don't hesitate to reopen if you're still experiencing this problem.
Sven
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