Hi all, I finally tracked down a problem with Xemacs19 and gnus, and hope this can help someone else. I'm tracking unstable, and generally having very few problems (thanks!). The past few days, however, xemacs has refused to recognize that I have mail in my mailbox, and gnus doesn't see it either.
Xemacs, gnus, and some other packages (efs, prim, reportmail, rmail, crontab, and vm), all look for mail in /usr/spool/mail/<user>. On Debian systems, this is a symlink to /var/spool/mail/<user>, so all is well. This symlink seems to have been removed by some package recently, however, and problems began developing. Was this a deliberate policy decision? I seem to have missed discussion of it. I currently have added a line to my .emacs (so display-time will show the status of the mailbox): (setq rmail-spool-directory "/var/spool/mail/") and one to my .gnus: (setq nnmail-spool-file "/var/spool/mail/npreyer") and this works. Or I could replace the /usr/spool link. What's the best way to handle this? xemacs 19.16-1 Thanks! --Norris -- Norris Preyer (541) 962-3310 (office) Physics Program (541) 962-3873 (fax) Eastern Oregon University [EMAIL PROTECTED] La Grande, OR 97850 http://physics.eou.edu/npreyer.html finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
