Re: Error, unknown mail format!

[imputerate]

On May 16, 4:49 pm, imputerate <imputer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 16, 1:49 pm, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> 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.
>
> > Sven
>
> sven; tack ska du ha; i still need a hand;
> 1. i renamed the crash file:
>
>   -rw-r--r--  1 hodgson hodgson   84669 2008-05-16 16:40 .emacs-mail-
> crash-box
>   -rw-r--r--  1 hodgson hodgson   48590 2008-05-15 22:35 .emacs-mail-
> crash-box.\
> 20080516
>
> only to end up with another, today's;
>
> 2. my attempt to load gnus yielded:
>
> first:
> Wrote /home/hodgson/Mail/mail/misc/51608 [later
> 51611]                                \
>
> and then:
> Please answer y or n.  Mail source (pop :server
> mail.comcast.net :port
> pop3 :user pclhodgson :password ********) error (IO error
> reading
> /home/hodgson/Mail/mail/misc/.overview: Input/output
> error).
> Continue? (y or n)
>
> and finally:
> IO error reading /home/hodgson/Mail/mail/misc/.overview: Input/output
> error
>
> here's .overview and a sibling:
> -rw------- 1 hodgson hodgson   12506 2008-05-16 16:45
> 51611
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 hodgson hodgson    2895 2008-05-15
> 19:13 .marks
>     -rw------- 1 hodgson hodgson 2621558 2008-05-15 19:12 .overview
>
> shall i rename, move to a remote dir, or simply delete all these
> files? peter

sat. may 17: i've poked around and it looks like gnus is downloading
the mail from the server, and stashing it in
~/Mail/mail/misc/;
BUT i can't age access to the mail because of:
IO error reading /home/hodgson/Mail/mail/misc/.overview: Input/output
error  IO error reading /home/hodgson/Mail/mail/misc/.overview: Input/
output error

SO, i renamed .overview, and .marks;

now i can get in gnus:

[ Gnus --
49159 ]
      33: nnml
+privat:mail.posted
   49068: nnml
+privat:mail.misc
  [ misc --
58 ]
        58: nndraft:drafts

BUT, as you can see, there are 49068 messages in my inbox;

NOW, as it happens i had over 200 messages in my inbox, waiting to be
archived;

is there any way i can get those and the messages which have arrived,
and been stashed in /Mail/mail/misc/ without my being able to read
them?