Re: gnus-range-difference((nil . 95923) nil) → (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)

["B.V. Raghav" <bvraghav@iitk.ac.in>]

Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <unhammer@fsfe.org> writes:

>
> "commits" is a dovecot IMAP folder, synced by offlineimap to fastmail. My workaround is to delete
>
> ("commits" (3 . 8) ((1 . 95923)) ((unexist (1 . 75894) (75896... [SNIPPED]
>
> From .newsrc.eld, but it keeps coming back. I've also tried deleting
> "commits" from .newsrc, to no avail. It seems like a bug in gnus (though

Thanks Kevin for the direction.

In my case, it is the another remote imap server `nnimap:r-bvr' and one
of the folder pops out with an error in the debugger. I do not know
why, or cant predict which one?

I took the deleted part from .newsrc.eld in two subsequent runs, and
ediff-ed it. Following were the observations (n, m, a1, a2, b all are
numbers):

1. there is a difference in the `modseq' cdr. For example,
   (modseq . "n") changes to (modseq . "m")
   or
   (modseq . "n") changes to (modseq) - or vice versa

2. there is a difference in active cdr. For example,
   (active a1 . b) changes to (active a2 . b)

Does that ring any bell?

r
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(B.V. Raghav)
Ph.D. Student,
Design Programme, IIT Kanpur