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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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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