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Re: Error, unknown mail format!
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Sven Joachim |
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Re: Error, unknown mail format! |
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Fri, 16 May 2008 20:49:37 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
On 2008-05-16 18:36 +0200, imputerate wrote:
> 1. ubuntu, beta-hardy crashed; i rebooted;
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> 2. loaded emacs, then gnus:
> got the expected:
> Gnus auto-save file exists. Do you want to read it? (y or
> n)
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> 3. hit 'y' and then got this:
> Error, unknown mail format! (Possibly corrupted buffer ` *nnmail
> incoming*'.)
Recently I had such an experience myself, it was due to a corrupted
mail-source-crash-box file. By default that file is named
~/.emacs-mail-crash-box, try to move it out of the way before you start
Gnus.
The error message and handling could probably use some improvement.
Sven