From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Gnus Bug Central <bugs@gnus.org>, Ding Mailing List <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Gnus broken for directory mail sources
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:56:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <868wyxudd2.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87od7ul72n.fsf@anzu.internal.golden-gryphon.com>
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:25:20 -0500 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org> wrote:
MS> I can't run gnus with the following setting:
MS> (setq mail-sources
MS> '((directory :path "~/var/spool/mail" :suffix ".spool")))
MS> I get the failure about "void-variable user". I think this is
MS> related to the change:
MS> +2008-04-25 Teodor Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
MS> +
MS> + * mail-source.el: Load auth-source.el.
MS> + (mail-source-bind): Add comments. Call auth-source-user-or-password to
MS> + get user name or password, if auth-sources is set up.
MS> +
MS> For the directory mail source, user name and password do not
MS> make sense. Reverting emacs to just before that commit allowed things
MS> to proceed, and for me to send in this bug report.
This is fixed in Gnus CVS and will make its way to Emacs CVS. Make sure
you have the commit from 2008-04-28, the earlier fix from 2008-04-26 was
still not right. Sorry for the inconvenience, and let me know if it
fixed the problem for you.
Ted
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