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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.