movemail troubles

movemail troubles

[Gaute B Strokkenes]

I now regularly get errors like this:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument numberp "Drept")
  zerop("Drept")
  mail-source-movemail("/var/mail/gs234" "~/.emacs-mail-crash-box")
[snip]

"Drept", for the uninitiated, is Norwegian for "killed".

The value stems from this stanza:

		(setq result
		      (apply
		       'call-process
		       (append
			(list
			 (or mail-source-movemail-program
			     (expand-file-name "movemail" exec-directory))
			 nil errors nil from to)))))

According to the docstring for call-process and the elisp manual, if
the subprocess dies because of a signal, then call-process may return
a string describing it.  mail-source-movemail has code to handle this,
but it appear to be broken.

(I also find it worrying that movemail has started dying on me, but
that is unlikely to be a gnus bug...)

-- 
Gaute Strokkenes                        http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~gs234/
I'm not an Iranian!!  I voted for Dianne Feinstein!!

Re: movemail troubles

[Jesper Harder]

Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> I now regularly get errors like this:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument numberp "Drept")
>   zerop("Drept")
>   mail-source-movemail("/var/mail/gs234" "~/.emacs-mail-crash-box")
> [snip]
>
> According to the docstring for call-process and the elisp manual, if
> the subprocess dies because of a signal, then call-process may return
> a string describing it.  mail-source-movemail has code to handle this,
> but it appear to be broken.

Yup, fixed in CVS.