From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9477 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Kleinpaste Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: pop error in 0.81 and 0.82 Date: 20 Jan 1997 12:29:01 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149497 18731 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:31:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:31:37 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA04932 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 09:54:00 -0800 Original-Received: from maud.ifi.uio.no (0@maud.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.19]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:29:10 +0100 Original-Received: from pocari-sweat.jprc.com (karl@pocari-sweat.jprc.com [207.86.147.217]) by maud.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:29:08 +0100 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by pocari-sweat.jprc.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA15050; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 12:29:02 -0500 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9477 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9477 The change below ("diff -u", 0.80 -> 0.82) breaks movemail usage for POP mail access: --- nnmail.el Sat Jan 18 13:13:58 1997 +++ .bad/nnmail.el Thu Jan 16 18:45:30 1997 @@ -548,7 +550,7 @@ exec-directory) nil errors nil inbox tofile) (when nnmail-internal-password - (list nnmail-internal-password)))))) + (list (prin1-to-string nnmail-internal-password))))))) (if (not (buffer-modified-p errors)) ;; No output => movemail won (progn The problem is that (list nnmail-internal-password) generates ("xxxxx") while (list (prin1-to-string nnmail-internal-password)) generates ("\"xxxxx\"") Reverting to the non-prin1 case makes it work again.