Subject: bug#2164 closed by Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> (Re: bug#2164: 23.0.90; Failing to get new mail in rmail)

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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:15:06 +0000

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#2164: 23.0.90; Failing to get new mail in rmail

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Subject: Re: bug#2164: 23.0.90; Failing to get new mail in rmail
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:07:41 -0500

Hopefully fixed now.

Subject: 23.0.90; Failing to get new mail in rmail
From: jpff <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:56:54 +0000

I have just managed to work round all the problems to get my RMAIL
file in mbox format.  But now I cannot read new mail

(setq rmail-primary-inbox-list 
  '("/var/spool/mail/jpff" "/home/jpff/mbox" "/mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox"))

cardew:/tmp> ls -l "/var/spool/mail/jpff" "/home/jpff/mbox" "/mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox"
ls: cannot access /home/jpff/mbox: No such file or directory
-rw------- 1 jpff mail  1645024 2009-02-02 15:39 /mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox
-rw------- 1 jpff users       0 2009-02-02 15:46 /var/spool/mail/jpff

And it says 
(No new mail has arrived)
0 new messages read

But there are 219 messages in /mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox which is my
main mailbox

The same happens with -q at startup

==John ff
(sorry to report so many problems -- this conversion is causing real
problems)

In GNU Emacs 23.0.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
 of 2009-02-02 on cardew
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70200000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  auto-image-file-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC 
SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC 
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SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC 
SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC 
SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC 
SPC <down> <down> n n C-g C-g r <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<Edebug> <Go> n g n g g SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC g <menu-bar> 
<mail> <rmail-get-new-mail> SPC q C-x C-f C-g C-g C-h 
a r m a i l - f <next> <backspace> g e <tab> <backspace> 
t <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> C-x b * M <tab> 
<return> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down> <down> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> C-x 
C-f C-g C-x C-f C-g M-x r e p o <tab> r <tab> <ret
urn>

Recent messages:
(No new mail has arrived)
0 new messages read

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Type C-x 1 to remove help window.  
Type C-x 4 C-o RET to restore the other window, C-M-v to scroll help.
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==John ffitch