From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL and movemail? Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 18:18:28 +0000 Message-ID: <3315-Sun27Jan2019181828+0000-jpff@codemist.co.uk> References: <9811-Wed23Jan2019151609+0000-jpff@codemist.co.uk> <83bm478fp3.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="42307"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 27 19:19:58 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gnp2D-000ApA-QV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 19:19:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48926 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnp2C-0003Ik-NX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:19:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:57527) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnp1R-0003If-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:19:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnp1P-0003YZ-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:19:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.155.197.248] (port=36640 helo=codemist.co.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnp1N-0003VL-5W; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:19:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [172.16.4.16] (helo=xenakis.codemist.co.uk) by codemist.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1gnp1L-0000Jp-GR; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 18:19:03 +0000 Original-Received: from jpff by xenakis.codemist.co.uk with local (Exim 4.88) (envelope-from ) id 1gnp0m-0000we-CA; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 18:18:28 +0000 X-Mailer: emacs 27.0.50 (via feedmail 11-beta-1 I) In-Reply-To: (message from john on Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:57:04 +0000 (GMT)) X-ACL-Warn: No reverse lookup X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 217.155.197.248 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232729 Archived-At: Has anyone any idea why when I try to read my mbox from an NFS-mounted filing system if fails with Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) string-match("^\\(imap\\|pop\\)s?$" nil nil) rmail-remote-proto-p(nil) rmail-insert-inbox-text(("/var/spool/mail/jpff" "/mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox") t) rmail-get-new-mail-1(nil ("/var/spool/mail/jpff" "/mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox") nil) rmail-get-new-mail(nil) funcall-interactively(rmail-get-new-mail nil) call-interactively(rmail-get-new-mail nil nil) command-execute(rmail-get-new-mail) This has been working for years but stopped recently. It could be to do with a change in NFS but I have not identified an issue. It works from a local file and apparently using C-U g but clearly does not remove the incoming mail from the mbox. I tried stepping through the rmail-get-new-mail but did not see where it stopped working ==John ffitch