Re: Fwd: Patch for a bug in imap-open

[Ramkumar R <andyetitmoves@gmail.com>]

> I think we should go back to what your original problem was instead of
> looking at possible solutions.  I haven't understood what problem you
> want to solve.

This is my mail-sources:

      '((file)
	(imap :server "10.6.5.215" :user "ramk"
	      :mailbox "mbox" :fetchflag "\\Seen")))

I get the following error:

Mail source (imap :server 10.6.5.215 :user ramk :mailbox mbox
:fetchflag \Seen) error (stringp).  Continue? (yes or no)

I trace the error to rename-buffer which should be taking a buffer
name rather than a buffer. And that we are doing a kill buffer just
before that. So, I modified imap.el as it is in the patch.

Now, I get this error:

Mail source (imap :server 10.6.5.215 :user ramk :mailbox mbox
:fetchflag \Seen) error (Selecting deleted buffer).  Continue? (yes or
no)

So, I realise that the caller has been trying to use `buf' with which
imap-open was called, and `buf' was actually killed. What we have now
is a different buffer with the same buffer name. So, I updated buf in
the caller.

Hope this clarifies.

Ramkumar.

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