Re: need help with setting up gnus and nnimap

Re: need help with setting up gnus and nnimap

[Shenghuo ZHU]

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric S Johansson <esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us> writes:

[...]

Eric> The first problem is that either package can't find
Eric> base64-encode-string.  I don't know if I'm forgetting to load
Eric> something but I don't know where to find this function.
>> 
>> What are your Emacs and NTEmacs versions? In Emacs 20.4,
>> base64-encode-string should be a built-in function. For earlier
>> version, it is in base64.el which comes with pgnus.

Eric> 20.3 and I did look in base64.el but base64-encode-string is not
Eric> present.

Put (fset 'base64-encode-string 'base64-encode) in your .emacs or
.gnus.

Eric> I've got a back trace but I'm not sure how to interpret that
Eric> information yet.
>> 
>> You only got one-line back-trace? If not, you need post the whole
>> back trace.

Eric> no, I did get a multiline back trace and I attached it to this message

I think some package is using `advice' here, which could be the
problem.


Eric> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument wholenump -1)
Eric>   make-string(-1 124)
Eric>   trace-entry-message(nnimap-server-opened 0 ((server "harvee" optional)))
Eric>   (insert (trace-entry-message (quote nnimap-server-opened) trace-level (list ...)))
Eric>   (save-excursion (set-buffer trace-buffer) (goto-char (point-max)) (if (= trace-level 1) (insert trace-separator)) (insert (trace-entry-message ... trace-level ...)))
Eric>   (let ((trace-level ...) (trace-buffer ...)) (save-excursion (set-buffer trace-buffer) (goto-char ...) (if ... ...) (insert ...)) (setq ad-return-value (ad-Orig-nnimap-server-opened server)) (save-excursion (set-buffer trace-buffer) (goto-char ...) (insert ...)))
Eric>   (let (ad-return-value) (let (... ...) (save-excursion ... ... ... ...) (setq ad-return-value ...) (save-excursion ... ... ...)) ad-return-value)
Eric>   nnimap-server-opened("harvee")
Eric>   gnus-server-opened((nnimap "harvee" (nnimap-address "harvee.billerica.ma.us") (nnimap-stream network) (nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" "/home/esj/IMap/*"))))
Eric>   gnus-check-server((nnimap "harvee" (nnimap-address "harvee.billerica.ma.us") (nnimap-stream network) (nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" "/home/esj/IMap/*"))))
Eric>   gnus-read-active-file(nil nil)
Eric>   gnus-setup-news(nil nil nil)
Eric>   byte-code("\b„\x0e
Eric>   gnus-1(nil nil nil)
Eric>   gnus(nil)
Eric> * call-interactively(gnus)
Eric>   execute-extended-command(nil)
Eric> * call-interactively(execute-extended-command)


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Shenghuo