Jeremy Hankins <no...@nowan.org> writes: > Recently (after an update to emacs about a month ago, debian unstable) I > started getting a message when checking mail about a mail source error: > > Mail source (file :path /var/mail/nowan) error (Searching for program). > Continue? (yes or no) > > This is apparently from my secondary select method meant to pull in > localhost mail, and it doesn't seem to be anything obvious like a > permissions problem. It doesn't make any difference whether I respond > yes or no, either way mail out of /var/mail is ignored and the rest of > my mail is fetched successfully. > > It's clearly some sort of compatibility issue and I figured I needed to > sort through my gnus file and figure out where it was coming from -- > annoying but no big deal. And since it's only a small minority of my > mail affected it hasn't bugged me enough to pursue it till now. > > But the annoying thing, apart from the fact that the error is a bit > obscure (what program?), is that if I turn debug-on-quit on so as to > figure out where the bug is being triggered and why, the message goes > away removing my chance to trigger the debugger. > > Any ideas either a) what the problem fetching local mail is, or b) why > debug-on-quit makes the message go away?
Are you sure it isn't `debug-on-error' you want? Unless you're getting a hang when checking mail, and then trying to C-g out of the hang, you won't trigger `debug-on-quit'. Maybe try the former? Eric _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
