* movemail troubles
@ 2003-07-08 22:37 Gaute B Strokkenes
2003-07-08 23:09 ` Jesper Harder
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From: Gaute B Strokkenes @ 2003-07-08 22:37 UTC (permalink / 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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* Re: movemail troubles
2003-07-08 22:37 movemail troubles Gaute B Strokkenes
@ 2003-07-08 23:09 ` Jesper Harder
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From: Jesper Harder @ 2003-07-08 23:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 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]
>
> 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.
Yup, fixed in CVS.
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