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Author: imputerate
Date: May 16, 2008 09:36

1. ubuntu, beta-hardy crashed; i rebooted;

2. loaded emacs, then gnus:
got the expected:
Gnus auto-save file exists. Do you want to read it? (y or
n)

3. hit 'y' and then got this:
Error, unknown mail format! (Possibly corrupted buffer ` *nnmail
incoming*'.)

nothing gnu-ish showed up on screen;
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Re: Error, unknown mail format!         


Author: Sven Joachim
Date: May 16, 2008 11:49

On 2008-05-16 18:36 +0200, imputerate wrote:
> 1. ubuntu, beta-hardy crashed; i rebooted;
>
> 2. loaded emacs, then gnus:
> got the expected:
> Gnus auto-save file exists. Do you want to read it? (y or
> n)
>
> 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
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Re: Error, unknown mail format!         


Author: imputerate
Date: May 16, 2008 14:49

On May 16, 1:49 pm, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-05-16 18:36 +0200, imputerate wrote:
>
>> 1. ubuntu, beta-hardy crashed; i rebooted;
>
>> 2. loaded emacs, then gnus:
>> got the expected:
>> Gnus auto-save file exists.  Do you want to read it? (y or
>> n)
>
>> 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. ...
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Re: Error, unknown mail format!         


Author: imputerate
Date: May 17, 2008 13:29

On May 16, 4:49 pm, imputerate gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 16, 1:49 pm, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>
>
>> On 2008-05-16 18:36 +0200, imputerate wrote:
>
>>> 1. ubuntu, beta-hardy crashed; i rebooted;
>
>>> 2. loaded emacs, then gnus:
>>> got the expected:
>>> Gnus auto-save file exists.  Do you want to read it? (y or
>>> n)
>
>>> 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 ...
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