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bug#2164: 23.0.90; Failing to get new mail in rmail
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From: |
Glenn Morris |
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Subject: |
bug#2164: 23.0.90; Failing to get new mail in rmail |
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Date: |
Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:03:59 -0500 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
jpff wrote:
> (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list
> '("/var/spool/mail/jpff" "/home/jpff/mbox" "/mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox"))
[...]
> (No new mail has arrived)
> 0 new messages read
>
> But there are 219 messages in /mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox which is my
> main mailbox
There's a loop missing from rmail-get-new-mail. If you have two or
more inboxes with the same basename, rmail will silently stop
processing your inbox list when it encounters the first name clash.
Whee.
A temporary workaround is to rename your inboxes to have distinct
basenames (eg "/home/jpff/mbox2", "/mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox").
:(