On 2008-05-16 18:36 +0200, imputerate wrote: > 1. ubuntu, beta-hardy crashed; i rebooted; > > 2. loaded emacs, then gnus: > got the expected: > Gnus auto-save file exists. Do you want to read it? (y or > n) > > 3. hit 'y' and then got this: > Error, unknown mail format! (Possibly corrupted buffer ` *nnmail > incoming*'.)
Recently I had such an experience myself, it was due to a corrupted mail-source-crash-box file. By default that file is named ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box, try to move it out of the way before you start Gnus. The error message and handling could probably use some improvement. Sven _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
