Re: problems with splitting and imap

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gnu.emacs.gnus as well.

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:13:44 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote: 

TZ> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:31:09 +0200 Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> wrote: 
RR> A couple of days ago I had to remove all my splitting code because of
RR> this error:

RR> ,----
RR> | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp "(Unparsable address -- Strange character \\> found: \">_^_\")")
RR> |   bbdb/gnus-split-method()
RR> |   nnimap-split-to-groups(bbdb/gnus-split-method)
RR> |   nnimap-split-articles(nil "mymail")
RR> |   nnimap-request-scan(nil "mymail")
RR> |   gnus-request-scan(nil (nnimap "mymail" (nnimap-stream ssl) (nnimap-address "imap.richardriley.net") (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo") (nnir-search-engine imap)))
RR> |   gnus-read-active-file-1((nnimap "mymail" (nnimap-stream ssl) (nnimap-address "imap.richardriley.net") (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo") (nnir-search-engine imap)) nil)
RR> |   gnus-read-active-file()
RR> |   gnus-group-get-new-news(nil)
RR> |   gnus-1(nil nil nil)
RR> |   gnus(nil)
RR> |   call-interactively(gnus nil nil)
RR> `----

RR> Could someone please suggest how to fix this/locate the offending message?

RR> I'm talking to a dovecot IMAP server btw.

TZ> Looks like a bug in bbdb/gnus-split-method.  It should return nil if
TZ> this error happens (or maybe do something smarter, I don't know the code
TZ> too well so I didn't write a patch).  The error is coming from
TZ> `rfc822-addresses' which is part of Emacs.

TZ> I am cc-ing the BBDB group for help.

Sorry, the first CC didn't work.  Retrying.  This may get hairy because
gnu.emacs.gnus is a newsgroup.  I also cc-ed the Ding mailing list for
Gnus, so replies from BBDB developers make it back to Gnus developers.

Ted