unofficial mirror of help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jim Erickson <jimerickso@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: rmail invalid mbox file
Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 18:31:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALugi+XDHaDoJt5hAV2RK3fJYNiu2AgYQXZ9Z98WS+dQ0UHidQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

i am using rmail in emacs 27.2 on openbsd 6.9 on raspberrypi 4B 8gb
aarch64. i use fetchmail and procmail to deliver my gmail to
/home/jim/RMAIL. all rmail settings are at standard defaults. when i
try to open rmail to process my gmail it says the following:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid mbox file")
  signal(error ("Invalid mbox file"))
  error("Invalid mbox file")
  rmail-convert-file-maybe()
  rmail()
  funcall-interactively(rmail)
  call-interactively(rmail)
  menu-bar-read-mail()
  funcall-interactively(menu-bar-read-mail)
  call-interactively(menu-bar-read-mail nil nil)
  command-execute(menu-bar-read-mail)

i am using the standard RMAIL file formed by receiving mail through
fetchmail + procmail. can anyone tell me how to form a valid mbox file
so i can use rmail to process and read my gmail?



             reply	other threads:[~2021-05-04 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-04 23:31 Jim Erickson [this message]
2021-05-05  2:31 ` rmail invalid mbox file Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-05-05 11:37 Jim Erickson
2021-05-05 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-05 14:26 Jim Erickson
2021-05-05 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-05 15:51 ` tomas
2021-05-06 16:31 Jim Erickson

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CALugi+XDHaDoJt5hAV2RK3fJYNiu2AgYQXZ9Z98WS+dQ0UHidQ@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=jimerickso@gmail.com \
    --cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).