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: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:57:04 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <9811-Wed23Jan2019151609+0000-jpff@codemist.co.uk> <83bm478fp3.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="214370"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 23 21:09:43 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 1gmOqF-000tfq-5N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 21:09:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41050 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmOqE-0004VS-16 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:09:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50109) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmOjh-0007Dl-NG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:03:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmOeZ-0003R6-88 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:57:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.155.197.248] (port=33614 helo=codemist.co.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmOeX-0003Jw-9A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:57:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [172.16.4.42] (helo=snout.codemist.co.uk) by codemist.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1gmOeK-000579-Vu; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:57:25 +0000 In-Reply-To: <83bm478fp3.fsf@gnu.org> 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:232655 Archived-At: Buid emacs-26 wit no real change. Ran on my machine and got Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) string-match("^\\(imap\\|pop\\)s?$" nil nil) rmail-remote-proto-p(nil) rmail-insert-inbox-text(("/var/spool/mail/jpff" "/mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox") t) rmail-get-new-mail-1(nil ("/var/spool/mail/jpff" "/mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox") nil) rmail-get-new-mail(nil) funcall-interactively(rmail-get-new-mail nil) call-interactively(rmail-get-new-mail nil nil) command-execute(rmail-get-new-mail) The file /mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox is my mail file mounted via NFS. The/var/spool/mail/jpff file is local and not used except when the mailer breaks ie never Best thought I have is soething to do with the nfs on the new server (Debian stretch). I did try reading mail from a local file and that worked. ==John ffitch On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:16:09 +0000 >> From: John >> >> I am running the latest emacs from master but I am not sure when this >> started to happen. >> >> My raw mail box lives on a mail server machine on the LAN and i read >> email either directly there (with alpine usually) or from time to time >> I read mail into RMAIL on emacs on this computer. For some time I >> have not read it into emacs but now it does not work, nor for the >> other main emacs user. It may have been triggered by a replacement >> of the mail server (due to a failing disk possible) as the other user >> noticed this yesterday. >> >> Running emacs and looking at RMAIL file I type g, and it fails >> >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) >> string-match("^\\(imap\\|pop\\)s?$" 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() > > Can you try the emacs-26 branch and see if this problem happens there > as well? > > Thanks. >