problem switching to quassia

problem switching to quassia

[Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen]

I just tried to use Quassia (0.17) for the first time (it comes
bundled with the xemacs-20.4-beta7 packages).

When I run `message-mail' from a vanilla xemacs, I get the following
backtrace:

---- Start of included text -----------------------8<--- cut here -------------
Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp nndraft-directory)
  expand-file-name(nndraft-directory)
  nnmail-group-pathname("drafts" nndraft-directory)
  nnmh-possibly-change-directory("drafts" nil)
  nnmh-request-accept-article("drafts" nil t noinsert)
  apply(nnmh-request-accept-article ("drafts" nil t noinsert))
  nnoo-parent-function(nndraft nnmh-request-accept-article ("drafts" nil t noinsert))
  nndraft-request-accept-article("drafts" nil t noinsert)
  nndraft-request-associate-buffer("drafts")
  message-set-auto-save-file-name()
  message-mode()
  message-pop-to-buffer("*mail*")
  #<compiled-function (from "message.elc") (&optional to subject other-headers continue switch-function yank-action send-actions) "...(52)" [t message-this-is-mail message-pop-to-buffer message-buffer-name "mail" to message-setup To "" Subject subject other-headers] 4 ("/proj2/lang/mule-unsupported/lib/xemacs/packages/lisp/gnus/message.elc" . 69050) nil>()
  call-interactively(message-mail)
  command-execute(message-mail t)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command)
---- End of included text -------------------------8<--- and here -------------

The trouble is I can't see why `nnmh-directory's value is
`nndraft-directory' and not a string.

Anyone know what is going on here?

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Re: problem switching to quassia

[Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen]

Hmmm, I "fixed" my problem by making (sure I had) a
"~/News/drafts/drafts/" directory.  Now `message-mail' and
`message-news' seem to work fine.  Or should that directory be
just "~/News/drafts/"?

Anyway there seems to be a bug here that needs fixing.  I shouldn't
have to create any directory by hand.

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Re: problem switching to quassia

[Dave Love]

>>>>> "juhp" == Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen <petersen@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:

 juhp> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp nndraft-directory)
 juhp>   expand-file-name(nndraft-directory)
 juhp>   nnmail-group-pathname("drafts" nndraft-directory)
[...]
 juhp> The trouble is I can't see why `nnmh-directory's value is
 juhp> `nndraft-directory' and not a string.

Indeed!

>>>>> "juhp" == Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen <petersen@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:

 juhp> Hmmm, I "fixed" my problem by making (sure I had) a
 juhp> "~/News/drafts/drafts/" directory.  Now `message-mail' and
 juhp> `message-news' seem to work fine.

I think this is a red herring [are red herrings international?].  I
see this behaviour sometimes (but in Emacs20) apparently depending in
which order things get loaded, i.e. the sequence in which I read
news/send mail/whatever after restarting Emacs.  I haven't been able
to debug it as it only happens when I'm pushed for time.  Any ideas
from experts on things to check next time would be welcome; just
trundling up the stack wasn't enlightening.

Re: problem switching to quassia

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:

>  juhp> Hmmm, I "fixed" my problem by making (sure I had) a
>  juhp> "~/News/drafts/drafts/" directory.  Now `message-mail' and
>  juhp> `message-news' seem to work fine.
> 
> I think this is a red herring [are red herrings international?].  I
> see this behaviour sometimes (but in Emacs20) apparently depending in
> which order things get loaded, i.e. the sequence in which I read
> news/send mail/whatever after restarting Emacs.  I haven't been able
> to debug it as it only happens when I'm pushed for time.  Any ideas
> from experts on things to check next time would be welcome; just
> trundling up the stack wasn't enlightening.

Yeah.  The problem is in nnoo, but I haven't been able to pinpoint it
yet.


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