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Re: Why is gnus not slurping *.in files


From: Eric Abrahamsen
Subject: Re: Why is gnus not slurping *.in files
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 19:13:21 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> I've used this code in gnus for a very long time:
>
> (Bunched for mail)
>
> (setq mail-sources
>    '((file :path "/var/spool/mail/reader")
>       (directory :path "/home/reader/spool/in/"    :suffix ".in")))
>
> And gnus has faithfully slurped mail at /var/spool/mail/reader
> And from ~/spool/<any mbox files ending in *.in>
>
> I've moved operations to a new host and now when I tell gnus to scan
> news/mail (C-g) those files are ignored silently.

I don't have any idea why that might be happening, but do try edebugging
the function `nnmail-get-new-mail-1' and seeing what happens. Follow the
function through and see if anything strikes you as weird.

Sorry not to be more helpful...

Eric




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