From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17242 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: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:04:32 +0100 Message-ID: <87y4r4hqlb.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> References: <877fys3ggc.fsf@hillenius.net> <87mw7natc7.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 1416560714 29445 80.91.229.3 (21 Nov 2014 09:05:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:05:14 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 21 10:05:06 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 1Xrk9J-0003s3-Sv for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:05:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39294 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xrk9J-0007Tq-Fv for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 04:05:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39492) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xrk9B-0007SM-5x for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 04:05:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xrk95-0003X9-3N for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 04:04:57 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43705) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xrk94-0003X5-Ss for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 04:04:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xrk91-0003mR-2n for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:04:47 +0100 Original-Received: from 2.163.251.229 ([2.163.251.229]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:04:47 +0100 Original-Received: from tsdh by 2.163.251.229 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:04:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2.163.251.229 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AsW4QT4OyTZFqGHXISWRmnSPmRw= 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:17242 Archived-At: Gijs Hillenius writes: >> `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. > > I have it set as described in the manual: > > (setq user-full-name "Your Name") > > But, eh, I also use > > message-alternative-emails > > which the manual shows takes precedence over styles that ran off > message-setup-hook. Perhaps that is what throws the spanner? Hm, well, maybe. The problem is that some variable that's intended to contain the user name as a string actually contains the symbol mail-user-name. I've just grepped the emacs and gnus sources, and there the symbol mail-user-name doesn't occur at all, so it's some local customization of yours or maybe a third-party package that causes the issue. But you can use `apropos-value' to find variables that contain a value whose print representation matches a given regex. So what does M-x apropos-value RET ^mail-user-name$ RET list? Bye, Tassilo