Re: Gnus corrupt mailbox w/ nnml

[Kyle Sexton]

On 10/16/07, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16 2007, Kyle Sexton wrote:
>
> > fetchmail -> procmail -> Inbox.spool
>
> You meant "Work.spool"?

You caught me. :)

> The error occurs if Gnus can't find "^From " in the spool file.
> Please show us the (anonymized) output of "head -n1 Work.spool".
> It should look like this:
>
> | From ttttttt@mmmmmm.invalid  Tue Oct 16 08:50:06 2007
>

Well, that explains my problem I guess.  The first line says:

~$ head -n1 Work.spool
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5
~$

In fact, the ^From isn't until line 18:

~$ cat Work.spool | nl | grep From
    18  From: "Anon Ymous" <anon@anon.com>
~$

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Kyle Sexton