From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RMAIL and movemail? Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:16:09 +0000 Message-ID: <9811-Wed23Jan2019151609+0000-jpff@codemist.co.uk> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.org; posting-host="ciao.gmane.org:195.159.176.228"; logging-data="157479"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.org" To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 23 16:31:17 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gmKUl-000ep0-Cy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:31:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36888 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmKUk-0007AW-4B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:31:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60916) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmKNH-0001Al-GD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:23:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmKN8-0000s2-2g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:23:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.155.197.248] (port=33420 helo=codemist.co.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmKN5-0000DI-P8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:23:19 -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 1gmKGY-0004Li-6u; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:16:34 +0000 Original-Received: from jpff by xenakis.codemist.co.uk with local (Exim 4.88) (envelope-from ) id 1gmKG9-0000fJ-2p; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:16:09 +0000 X-Mailer: emacs 27.0.50 (via feedmail 11-beta-1 I) 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:232631 Archived-At: I am running the latest emacs from master but I am not sure when this started to happen. My raw mail box lives on a mail server machine on the LAN and i read email either directly there (with alpine usually) or from time to time I read mail into RMAIL on emacs on this computer. For some time I have not read it into emacs but now it does not work, nor for the other main emacs user. It may have been triggered by a replacement of the mail server (due to a failing disk possible) as the other user noticed this yesterday. Running emacs and looking at RMAIL file I type g, and it fails 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(("/snout/home/aff/mbox") t) rmail-get-new-mail-1(nil ("/snout/home/aff/mbox") nil) rmail-get-new-mail() rmail() myrmail() funcall-interactively(myrmail) call-interactively(myrmail nil nil) command-execute(myrmail) command-line-1(("-f" "myrmail")) command-line() normal-top-level() Absolutely repeatable. The variable proto is nil and the mail box is set by (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("/snout/home/aff/mbox")) where /snout if nfs mounted from the server to the local machine This was working until yesterday. What have I done wrong? I have tried tracing the rail-get-new-mail and it looks OK as far as it goes. Another data point, ^U g works but clearly does not delete the primary mail. I have checks the computer has read/write access to the nfs mounted disk. ==John ffitch