Re: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) error at gnus startup

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> writes:

> Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:
>
>> With gnus v5.13 from Emacs 28.0.50 build of 2021-05-26, reported in
>> emacs bug#48664
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
>>   <=(nil 6)
>>   gnus-get-unread-articles(nil nil)
>>   gnus-setup-news(nil nil nil)
>>   #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x99b4d45572e0bb9>)()
>>   gnus-1(nil nil nil)
>> ...
>
> It appears that this and the issue reported by ‘Hirotaka Honda’ are
> same. And I have also started facing the issue very recently. Like last
> 4-5 days.
>
> I had reported a bug - 48664.
>
> But I still couldn’t find the root cause. I thought may be it is a local
> issue because no one else had any comments.
>
> But now it appears that this is related to some code change.

But Hirotaka Honda's error now looks like it's something to do with
`mail-extract-address-components', unless there's something really
bizarre going on...