From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48974 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: My imap is broken. I'm an ignorant, old user. Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 21:35:45 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042058139 20360 80.91.224.249 (8 Jan 2003 20:35:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 20:35:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18WMvJ-0005IE-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 21:35:38 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18WMvm-0002QW-00; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 14:36:06 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 08 Jan 2003 14:37:01 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA16475 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 14:36:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 61525 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2003 20:35:49 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 61520 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2003 20:35:49 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 8 Jan 2003 20:35:49 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h08KZjRr026115 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 8 Jan 2003 21:35:46 +0100 Original-To: William Goedicke X-Payment: hashcash 1.1 0:030108:goedicke@goedsole.com:68134ce8424f81a4 X-Hashcash: 0:030108:goedicke@goedsole.com:68134ce8424f81a4 X-Payment: hashcash 1.1 0:030108:ding@gnus.org:c6e489ee404319aa X-Hashcash: 0:030108:ding@gnus.org:c6e489ee404319aa In-Reply-To: (William Goedicke's message of "08 Jan 2003 12:21:17 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090011 (Oort Gnus v0.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48974 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48974 William Goedicke writes: >> If you set debug-on-quit and press C-g at the mail source error >> prompt what backtrace do you get? > > Signaling: (quit) > signal(quit nil) > read-from-minibuffer("Mail source error ((invalid-argument datum not string or error symbol nil)). Continue? (yes or no) " nil # nil t nil nil) > read-string("Mail source error ((invalid-argument datum not string or error symbol nil)). Continue? (yes or no) " nil t) > yes-or-no-p-minibuf("Mail source error ((invalid-argument datum not string or error symbol nil)). Continue? ") > yes-or-no-p("Mail source error ((invalid-argument datum not string or error symbol nil)). Continue? ") > byte-code("..." [err yes-or-no-p format "Mail source error (%s). Continue? " error "Cannot get new mail." 0] 4) > mail-source-fetch((imap :server "imap.staff.brandeis.edu" :password "PASSWORD" :stream ssl :user "goedicke") (lambda (file orig-file) (nnmail-split-incoming file (quote nnml-save-mail) (quote nil) (nnmail-get-split-group orig-file source) (quote nnml-active-number)))) Try M-x load-library RET mail-source.el RET and M-: (setq debug-on-signal t) RET before starting Gnus to get a better backtrace. Cut all backtrace you get and press 'c' in the backtrace window until it bugs out completely. Are you using latest Oort in CVS? (Your headers says something else.) The *imap-log* stuff looks OK.