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Subject: Re: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument number-char-or-marker-p Re:)
Date: 3 Dec 2002 18:59:52 -0800
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thanks!

deleting the .novcache file in the overview directory fixed the problem

Suresh
kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann wrote in message news:<84k7ir5yn7.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>...
> sulchi@yahoo.com (Suresh) writes:
> 
> > I get the following error when entering a imap folder. It used to work
> > fine and I don't remember changing anything.
> > I'm using v5.8.8. Only few folders has this problem.
> >
> > here's the backtrace..
> >
> > Signaling: (wrong-type-argument number-char-or-marker-p Re:)
> >   =(327 Re:)
> 
> Do you have a .overview file for that group?  It could be in
> ~/News/overview or one of its sub(subsub)dirs.  The subdir name gives
> the group name.
> 
> I suspect that file is b0rked.  You can just delete it if that's the case.