From: Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus request scan issue : backtrace
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 17:26:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=7z0qh4L0tVL+Ci_JQEgZqv8FSYDaK10WdcA3j@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6aclmgc.fsf@lifelogs.com>
2010/10/5 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:23:38 +0200 Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> RR> trying to localise spam splitting to only my main imap server I
> RR> modified my imap select method to this:-
>
> RR> (setq nnimap-split-fancy (quote (: spam-split)))
>
> RR> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
> RR> `(nnimap "riley"
> RR> (nnimap-address "offlineimap")
> RR> (nnir-search-engine imap)
> RR> (nnimap-stream network)
> RR> (nnimap-split-methods (quote nnimap-split-fancy))
> RR> ))
>
> (This is a very common confusion when you're learning ELisp. It took me
> a while too.)
>
> (quote x) and 'x are usually the same thing in ELisp. You don't want to
> quote inside a quoted expression:
>
> (setq nnimap-split-fancy (quote (: spam-split)))
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
> `(nnimap "riley"
> (nnimap-address "offlineimap")
> (nnir-search-engine imap)
> (nnimap-stream network)
> (nnimap-split-methods nnimap-split-fancy)
> ))
>
> What you had before was "set the nnimap-split-method to the list of the
> symbol 'quote followed by the symbol 'nnimap-split-fancy".
>
Doing that results in
nnmail-check-duplication: Wrong type argument: listp, nnimap-split-fancy
>
> Ted
>
>
> Ted
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-05 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-05 14:23 Richard Riley
2010-10-05 14:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-05 15:26 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2010-10-05 15:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-05 15:49 ` Richard Riley
2010-10-05 17:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-05 17:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-05 18:21 ` Tibor Simko
2010-10-06 10:09 ` Richard Riley
2010-10-05 18:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-05 19:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
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