From: Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: movemail troubles
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 23:37:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fzlgy79m.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
I now regularly get errors like this:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument numberp "Drept")
zerop("Drept")
mail-source-movemail("/var/mail/gs234" "~/.emacs-mail-crash-box")
[snip]
"Drept", for the uninitiated, is Norwegian for "killed".
The value stems from this stanza:
(setq result
(apply
'call-process
(append
(list
(or mail-source-movemail-program
(expand-file-name "movemail" exec-directory))
nil errors nil from to)))))
According to the docstring for call-process and the elisp manual, if
the subprocess dies because of a signal, then call-process may return
a string describing it. mail-source-movemail has code to handle this,
but it appear to be broken.
(I also find it worrying that movemail has started dying on me, but
that is unlikely to be a gnus bug...)
--
Gaute Strokkenes http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~gs234/
I'm not an Iranian!! I voted for Dianne Feinstein!!
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2003-07-08 22:37 Gaute B Strokkenes [this message]
2003-07-08 23:09 ` Jesper Harder
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