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Ichimusai <ichi@ichimusai.org> writes:

> After some system upgrades and reinstallation I get an error when I
> try to send mail with Gnus.
>
> Could someone try to talk me through how to backtrace and see what is
> going on? The only message I get is a "Wrong type argument: stringp,
> Nil" when I hit C-c C-c to send. 

Please supply the complete backtrace.  It's hard to guess what the
cause could be without it.

... but my crystall ball says that you installed FLIM -- get rid of
it, it's incompatible with standard Emacs smtpmail.