From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Something smelly here. [.emacs-custom file] Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:21:09 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4087E2E5.3090902@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082651406 6119 80.91.224.253 (22 Apr 2004 16:30:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:30:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 22 18:30:00 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BGh5L-0007yf-00 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:30:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BGgCo-0005Q5-AQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:33:38 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 45 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1082647261 10095823 I 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:122571 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17859 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17859 reader@newsguy.com wrote: > In this case I've gotten something to do with mail tangled up with > .emacs-custom file. It keeps trying to write part of a mail message > to the custom file. Whenever I close gnus or send a news post > something like this gets written to .emacs-custom: > (custom-set-variables > ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it! > ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. > '(canlock-password "3931d41841769fd6053e719084096803d2381412")) > (custom-set-faces > ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it! > ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. > ) > From: reader@newsguy.com > X-Draft-From: ("rec.woodworking" "") > > The first part looks sort of normal although I have no idea what a > `canlock-password' is all about, but the partial mail header is just > wrong. > > Once this happens and I close emacs.... on next start of emacs, the > init process finds that cruft and errors out. > > My init files are setup as close as I could get them to my old unix > setup. But I haven't used the customize stuff at all yet. So > technically it seems nothing should be in ~/.emacs-custom. Googling for "canlock gnus emacs" yields http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-users-ru/200305/msg00000.html ** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News. This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for cancelling and superseding). Gnus generates a random password string the first time you post a message, and saves it in your ~/.emacs using the Custom system. While the variable is called `canlock-password', it is not security sensitive data. Publishing your canlock string on the web will not allow anyone to be able to anything she could not already do. The behaviour can be changed by customizing `message-insert-canlock'. Apropos is your friend, -- Kevin Rodgers