Re: error fetching emails in agent

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> finally, yes!  I have had debug-on-error turned on and have been trying
> Js periodically the past day or two and finally I got an error with
> corresponding backtrace:
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range 13294 19274)
>   gnus-agent-fetch-articles("nnimap+ucl:lists.org" (2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 ...))

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> However, I don't think it's particularly helpful.

No, unfortunately that function is really, really long, so it's
difficult to say what's going on.  Running with an uncompiled
gnus-agent.el will give a more detailed backtrace.

> I think I've narrowed down the conditions under which this happens: if I
> read a group and exit it, with articles being expired as a result, and
> then ask the agent to fetch articles without saving first, this seems to
> happen.  If I save ('s' in Group buffer), this doesn't seem to happen or
> if no articles have been expired since the last save it doesn't seem to
> happen either.

Hm...  I've looked at what `s' does, and I can't quite see how that
would interfere with the Agent, one way or other.

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