Re: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) error at gnus startup

[Hirotaka Honda <hirotaka@hondalaw.com>]

Dear all

What a cool typo it was. Correct is:
    never happened again.

Hirotaka

Hirotaka Honda <hirotaka@hondalaw.com> writes:

> Dear all
>
> After I commented out gnus-registry as the following, any errors (or the
> same errors) happened again.
>
> ;; (gnus-registry-initialize)
> ;; (setq
> ;;  gnus-registry-split-strategy 'majority
> ;;  gnus-registry-ignored-groups '(
> ;; 								("nntp" t)
> ;; 								("nnrss" t)
> ;; 								("mail.spam" t)
> ;; 								("archive" t)
> ;; 								("Send-Mail" t))
> ;; gnus-registry-track-extra nil
> ;; gnus-registry-max-entries 500000)
>
> ;; (setq spam-log-to-registry t)
>
> Hirotaka Honda
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> On 06/01/21 22:30 PM, Hirotaka Honda wrote:
>>> Dear all
>>>
>>> I am not certian what is happening, though the most dubious mail has
>>> the email header like this:
>>>
>>> X-From-Line: - Fri May 28 HH:MM:SS 2021 [I masked the time]
>>> X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
>>> X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
>>> ...
>>> From: =?iso-2022-jp?B?[mask]?= <[mask]@outlook.jp>
>>> To: =?utf-8?B?[mask]?=
>>> =?utf-8?B?[mask]?= <[mask]@[mask]>
>>> Cc: =?iso-2022-jp?B?[mask]?=
>>> =?iso-2022-jp?B?[mask]=?= <[mask]@[mask]>,
>>> "[mask]@[mask]" <[mask]@[mask]>
>>> ...
>>> X-Mailer: JavaMail
>>>
>>> Does the Gnus expect that To field and Cc field are coded in different ways?
>>
>> That shouldn't be a problem, the decoding process is called once for
>> each header, and each time it detects the coding over again.
>>
>> My only uncertainty is, should the headers somehow be already decoded at
>> this point (during registry operation), and if so and we're just missing
>> a decode call, why hasn't this become an issue in the past? I suspect we
>> just need to add decoding to the process, but it still makes me suspicious.