Metamail error

Metamail error

[Colin Marquardt]

Hello,

I'm rather new to Gnus, and I have a problem with metamail.
If I do, e.g 

M-x gnus-summary-toggle-mime

then I get (from Recent Messages): 

Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil

   Entering debugger...
   Loading debug...done
   Loading debug...
   Loading metamail...done
   Loading metamail...
   Generating summary...done
   Generating summary...
   Sorting threads...done
   Sorting threads...
   Scoring...done
   Scoring...
   Fetching headers for comp.emacs.xemacs...done


debug says:

   Signaling: (file-error "Searching for program" "no such file or directory" "metamail")
     call-process-internal("metamail" nil t t "-x" "-d" "-z" "-m" "emacs" "/tmp/metamaila000at")
     apply(call-process-internal "metamail" nil t t ("-x" "-d" "-z" "-m" "emacs" "/tmp/metamaila000at"))
     call-process("metamail" nil t t "-x" "-d" "-z" "-m" "emacs" "/tmp/metamaila000at")
     apply(call-process "metamail" nil t t ("-x" "-d" "-z" "-m" "emacs" "/tmp/metamaila000at"))
     metamail-region(1 1297 nil nil nil)
     metamail-buffer()
     gnus-article-prepare(17391 nil)
     gnus-summary-display-article(17391)
     gnus-summary-first-unread-article()
     gnus-summary-read-group-1("comp.emacs.xemacs" nil nil nil nil)
     gnus-summary-read-group("comp.emacs.xemacs" nil nil nil nil)
     gnus-group-read-group(nil)
     call-interactively(gnus-group-read-group)


I'm using XEmacs 19.16, Gnus v5.4.37; nntp 5.0; nnml 1.0, FWIW.
Metamail is v1.1, 1993/12/01

Can anyone help?

TIA,
   Colin

Re: Metamail error

[Kai Grossjohann]

The message says that the program `metamail' can't be found.  Install
the Metamail package and make sure that the program `metamail' is on
your $PATH.
kai
-- 
OOP: object oriented programming;  OOPS: object oriented mistakes

Re: Metamail error

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Colin Marquardt <C.Marquardt@alcatel.de> writes:

>    Signaling: (file-error "Searching for program" "no such file or directory" "metamail")

This must mean that you don't have "metamail" in your path.

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Metamail error

[Colin Marquardt]

> The message says that the program `metamail' can't be found.  Install
> the Metamail package and make sure that the program `metamail' is on
> your $PATH.

Ah, okay, metamail is an external program. Sorry for my ignorance.

Cheers,
   Colin