Re: getting mail from spool broken?

[Gijs Hillenius]

On  6 Apr 2008, Gijs Hillenius wrote:

> Hello
>
> This might be something for an all-emacs news group, not sure. Apologies
> if I am in the wrong group...
>
> I'm using Gnus v5.13, and an hour or so ago upgraded to a very recent
> emacs from cvs. (http://emacs.orebokech.com/ )
>
> This upgrade seems to have broken gnus getting mail from the local 
> /var/mail/gijs

I think I fixed it by adding a 

(setq mail-sources
      '((file :path "/var/spool/mail/user-name")))

in my .gnus.

But now don't ask me how gnus & emacs worked all this time without those
lines. It did.


Gijs


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