From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16813 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: (Jari Aalto+list.ding) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Patch: be verbose if POP3 setup is not ok Date: 09 Sep 1998 00:04:46 +0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155624 30023 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:13:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:13:44 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA08959 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 17:05:55 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAF29120; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:36:52 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 08 Sep 1998 16:05:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA08087 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:05:11 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from axl01it.ntc.nokia.com (axl01it.ntc.nokia.com [131.228.118.232]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA08949 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 17:04:53 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from zeus.tele.nokia.fi (zeus.tele.nokia.fi [131.228.134.50]) by axl01it.ntc.nokia.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA19935 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 00:04:31 +0300 (EET DST) Original-Received: from tre.tele.nokia.fi (styx.ntc.nokia.com [131.228.169.57]) by zeus.tele.nokia.fi (8.6.4/8.6.4) with ESMTP id AAA27510 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 00:09:24 +0300 Original-Received: by tre.tele.nokia.fi (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA244078687; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 00:04:47 +0300 Original-To: Ding mailing list X-Sender-Info: Emacs tiny tools: ftp://cs.uta.fi/pub/ssjaaa/ File server: Send subject 'send help' to In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "08 Sep 1998 21:38:20 +0200" Original-Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Pterodactyl Gnus v0.13/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16813 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16813 | 1998-09-08 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen list.ding | (Jari Aalto+list.ding) writes: | | > + ;; expand-file-name below breaks if we don't check this. | > + (unless (stringp nnmail-movemail-program) | > + (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Gnus Error*" | > + (princ | > + (message | > + (concat "Your nnmail-movemail-program must be string " | > + "or callable lisp function. \nPlease check " | > + "your setup. Value was [%s]") | > + (prin1-to-string nnmail-movemail-program)))) | > + (error "Gnus: Error, Check nnmail-movemail-program")) | | There are a gazillion variables that can be strings, symbols, list or | numbers, and if I were to add error messages like these to them all, | Gnus would swell to several gazillion megabytes. Hoabout just adding the last `error' command in this case? The movemail setup is quite curcial if one starts to play with it (eg pop3 in my case) jari