Error Sending Email With Latest CVS Build

Error Sending Email With Latest CVS Build

[Jake Colman]

I just upgraded from an early CVS Version (5.4.4) to the latest 5.8.8.  When
I try to send email, I get the following:

Wrong type argument: listp, iso-8859-1

The email _is_ sent but the mail buffer remains visible.  I have to manually
kill the buffer.  Anyone know what the problem might be or what I should do
to give you more detail?

Thanks!

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Jake Colman                     

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Re: Error Sending Email With Latest CVS Build

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> I just upgraded from an early CVS Version (5.4.4) to the latest 5.8.8.  When
> I try to send email, I get the following:
> 
> Wrong type argument: listp, iso-8859-1
> 
> The email _is_ sent but the mail buffer remains visible.  I have to manually
> kill the buffer.  Anyone know what the problem might be or what I should do
> to give you more detail?

Please `M-: (setq debug-on-error t) RET' and post the backtrace.

ShengHuo

Re: Error Sending Email With Latest CVS Build

[Jake Colman]

>>>>> "ZSH" == ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

    >> I just upgraded from an early CVS Version (5.4.4) to the latest 5.8.8.
    >> When I try to send email, I get the following:
    >>
    >> Wrong type argument: listp, iso-8859-1
    >>
    >> The email _is_ sent but the mail buffer remains visible.  I have to
    >> manually kill the buffer.  Anyone know what the problem might be or
    >> what I should do to give you more detail?

    ZSH> Please `M-: (setq debug-on-error t) RET' and post the backtrace.

As I posted in a separate email...

I found that the following line

        (setq message-posting-charset 'iso-8859-1)

was what was causing me grief sending mail when I upgraded to 5.8.8 in cvs.
I commented it out and now all is well.  Any idea what this is and why I may
have been setting it?

Do you still want me to generate a backtrace or is this sufficient
information?

-- 
Jake Colman                     

Principia Partners LLC                  Phone: (201) 946-0300
Harborside Financial Center               Fax: (201) 946-0320
902 Plaza II                           Beeper: (800) 928-4640
Jersey City, NJ 07311                  E-mail: colman@ppllc.com
                                       E-mail: jcolman@jnc.com
                                          web: http://www.ppllc.com

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linux:     "where do you want to go tomorrow?"
BSD:       "are you guys coming, or what?"

Re: Error Sending Email With Latest CVS Build

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> As I posted in a separate email...
> 
> I found that the following line
> 
>         (setq message-posting-charset 'iso-8859-1)
> 
> was what was causing me grief sending mail when I upgraded to 5.8.8 in cvs.
> I commented it out and now all is well.  Any idea what this is and why I may
> have been setting it?
> 
> Do you still want me to generate a backtrace or is this sufficient
> information?

The value of message-posting-charset should look like '(iso-8859-1
iso-8859-1), but in most cases the value is not used because
gnus-group-posting-charset-alist overrides it.

ShengHuo

Re: Error Sending Email With Latest CVS Build

[Jake Colman]

>>>>> "ZSH" == ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

    ZSH> The value of message-posting-charset should look like '(iso-8859-1
    ZSH> iso-8859-1), but in most cases the value is not used because
    ZSH> gnus-group-posting-charset-alist overrides it.

Hmmmm.  The variable gnus-group-posting-charset-alist does not seem to be
defined for me at all.  In any event, should I be setting either one of these
at all or will things "just work right" regardless?

-- 
Jake Colman                     

Principia Partners LLC                  Phone: (201) 946-0300
Harborside Financial Center               Fax: (201) 946-0320
902 Plaza II                           Beeper: (800) 928-4640
Jersey City, NJ 07311                  E-mail: colman@ppllc.com
                                       E-mail: jcolman@jnc.com
                                          web: http://www.ppllc.com

microsoft: "where do you want to go today?"
linux:     "where do you want to go tomorrow?"
BSD:       "are you guys coming, or what?"

Re: Error Sending Email With Latest CVS Build

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> >>>>> "ZSH" == ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> 
>     ZSH> The value of message-posting-charset should look like '(iso-8859-1
>     ZSH> iso-8859-1), but in most cases the value is not used because
>     ZSH> gnus-group-posting-charset-alist overrides it.
> 
> Hmmmm.  The variable gnus-group-posting-charset-alist does not seem to be
> defined for me at all.  In any event, should I be setting either one of these
> at all or will things "just work right" regardless?

The variable is defined in gnus-msg.  It seems that you improperly
start a message buffer, for example, message-mail.  The following code
may help you (only valid for Gnus 5.8.8 or higher version).

(require 'gnus-msg)
(setq mail-user-agent 'gnus-user-agent)
(setq bbdb-send-mail-style 'compose-mail) ;; If you use BBDB.

ShengHuo

Re: Error Sending Email With Latest CVS Build

[Florian Weimer]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> Hmmmm.  The variable gnus-group-posting-charset-alist does not seem to be
> defined for me at all. 

Are you sure?  I think it's hard to load Gnus without binding this
variable.

> In any event, should I be setting either one of these at all or will
> things "just work right" regardless?

It shouldn't be necessary to set any of these variables (if your
overall Emacs configuration is correct).  Otherwise, this might
qualify as a bug in Gnus.

Re: Error Sending Email With Latest CVS Build

[Jake Colman]

>>>>> "ZSH" == ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

    ZSH> The variable is defined in gnus-msg.  It seems that you improperly
    ZSH> start a message buffer, for example, message-mail.  The following
    ZSH> code may help you (only valid for Gnus 5.8.8 or higher version).

Actually, it appears that gnus-msg is not being loaded until the first time I
try to send an email -- a seemingly, reasonable behavior.  So I guess all is
actually well and I should simply not be defining these variables.

-- 
Jake Colman                     

Principia Partners LLC                  Phone: (201) 946-0300
Harborside Financial Center               Fax: (201) 946-0320
902 Plaza II                           Beeper: (800) 928-4640
Jersey City, NJ 07311                  E-mail: colman@ppllc.com
                                       E-mail: jcolman@jnc.com
                                          web: http://www.ppllc.com

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linux:     "where do you want to go tomorrow?"
BSD:       "are you guys coming, or what?"

Re: Error Sending Email With Latest CVS Build

[Jake Colman]

>>>>> "FW" == Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

    FW> It shouldn't be necessary to set any of these variables (if your
    FW> overall Emacs configuration is correct).  Otherwise, this might
    FW> qualify as a bug in Gnus.

The overall configuration _does_ seem to be correct.  gnus-msg does not load
until you send your first email and that's why the variables were not
defined.  Again, I guess I should not have to manually tweak these variables?
Maybe this was just something I was doing for an earlier beta of gnus?

-- 
Jake Colman                     

Principia Partners LLC                  Phone: (201) 946-0300
Harborside Financial Center               Fax: (201) 946-0320
902 Plaza II                           Beeper: (800) 928-4640
Jersey City, NJ 07311                  E-mail: colman@ppllc.com
                                       E-mail: jcolman@jnc.com
                                          web: http://www.ppllc.com

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linux:     "where do you want to go tomorrow?"
BSD:       "are you guys coming, or what?"

Re: Error Sending Email With Latest CVS Build

[Florian Weimer]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> >>>>> "FW" == Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> 
>     FW> It shouldn't be necessary to set any of these variables (if your
>     FW> overall Emacs configuration is correct).  Otherwise, this might
>     FW> qualify as a bug in Gnus.
> 
> The overall configuration _does_ seem to be correct.  gnus-msg does
> not load until you send your first email and that's why the
> variables were not defined.  Again, I guess I should not have to
> manually tweak these variables?

There are some applications which require tweaking this variables
(for example, if you post to the foo.* hierarchy which requires the
"bar-baz" MIME charset for articles).  The default settings cover some
hierarchies which mandate articles violating the MIME RFCs, but there
might be additional ones.