[mew-int 01700] Re: incm - workaround (not solved )

[Francesco Scaglioni]

From: mew at example.com
Subject: [mew-int 01699] Re: incm - workaround (not solved )
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:29:39 +0100 (CET)

> From: Francesco Scaglioni <fgs at example.com>
> Subject: [mew-int 01697] incm - workaround (not solved )
> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 09:46:05 +0000 (GMT)
> 
> > I gave up on trying to persuade incm to handle my system mbox --
> > the workaround was to have procmail deliver to a maildir
> 
> I'm glad you found a workaround.
> 
> > instead.  My very limited ability to interpret the strace when
> > pointing incm at the mbox suggested that it may have been
> > delivering my mail to /dev/null but who knows.
> 
> It appears that incm trying to open /dev/null in my case as well.
> Here's a part of my strace:
> 
> stat("/var/spool/mail/petter", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=796, ...}) = 0
> open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x10000) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
> open("/mnt/home/petter/Mail/inbox", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x18000) = 3
> 
> 
> 
> Petter
> 
> 
> 

Do you think we should tell the chap who maintains incm about
this or are we both missing something obvious.  I know tht I
might well be.

Regards

Francesco