From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17239 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: resend message: Wrong type argument: stringp, mail-user-name Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:55:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87a93nd3q8.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> References: <877fys3ggc.fsf@hillenius.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416383752 4414 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2014 07:55:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 07:55:52 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 19 08:55:44 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr074-0001To-Jf for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:55:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56854 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr074-0002fv-6r for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 02:55:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47656) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr06v-0002fa-86 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 02:55:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr06o-0000Zt-UP for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 02:55:33 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49869) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr06o-0000Yu-Bf for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 02:55:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr06m-0001MI-8T for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:55:24 +0100 Original-Received: from dhcp235.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.71.235]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:55:24 +0100 Original-Received: from tsdh by dhcp235.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:55:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp235.uni-koblenz.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eOSlHxDYGl/x3ZdYMFeMBF1aOO8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17239 Archived-At: Gijs Hillenius writes: Hi Gijs, > This is most likely a local bug: when I want to resend an email, I do > `SDr`. Invariably, when hitting C-c C-c, the result is > "message-make-from: Wrong type argument: stringp, mail-user-name" > > Alternatively, SDe just works. > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp mail-user-name) > string-match("[^- !#-'*+/-9=?A-Z^-~]" mail-user-name) > message-make-from() Looking at the code, the line with the error is (string-match "[^- !#-'*+/-9=?A-Z^-~]" fullname) where fullname is let-bound to (or name (and (boundp 'user-full-name) user-full-name) (user-full-name)) `name' is not provided according to your backtrace. So I guess you have somewhere in your init file (setq user-full-name 'mail-user-name) whereas you probably wanted to write (setq user-full-name mail-user-name) That is, you accidentally set `user-full-name' to the symbol mail-user-name instead to the value of that variable. Bye, Tassilo