Re: Problems incorporating old mail

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Jun 16 2010, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

> Some of the mailboxes have come in fine, others have a peculiar
> error where a mailbox of several hundred messages will be read as a
> nndoc group of six or seven messages: 400 messages will get crammed
> into one "message", with a couple of stragglers left over. The
> mega-message displays as only the first of the incorporated
> messages, with the rest of them I think interpreted as some sort of
> MIME part.

Did you try to specify mbox explicitely instead of letting Gnus guess
the type of the file?  I.e. `C-u G f file RET m'?

,----[ (info "(gnus)Foreign Groups") ]
| `G f'
|      Make a group based on some file or other
|      (`gnus-group-make-doc-group').  If you give a prefix to this
|      command, you will be prompted for a file name and a file type.
|      Currently supported types are `mbox', [...].  If you run this
|      command without a prefix, Gnus will guess at the file type.  *Note
|      Document Groups::.
`----

,----[ (info "(gnus)Document Groups") ]
| 6.6.3 Document Groups
| ---------------------
| 
| `nndoc' is a cute little thing that will let you read a single file as
| a newsgroup.  Several files types are supported:
| 
| [...]
|
| `mbox'
|      The standard Unix mbox file.
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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