From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rmail invalid mbox file
Date: Wed, 05 May 2021 05:31:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831ral52ts.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALugi+XDHaDoJt5hAV2RK3fJYNiu2AgYQXZ9Z98WS+dQ0UHidQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Jim Erickson on Tue, 4 May 2021 18:31:37 -0500)
> From: Jim Erickson <jimerickso@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 18:31:37 -0500
>
> 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?
Can you show the first line of that mbox file?
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2021-05-04 23:31 rmail invalid mbox file Jim Erickson
2021-05-05 2:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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
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