Re: nnmail dies on switch to MS Windows

Re: nnmail dies on switch to MS Windows

[Kai Großjohann]

Paul Smith <pdsmith@iinet.net.au> writes:

> I've just switched my main desktop PC to Windows (reluctantly) and
> Xemacs/Gnus with it. Gnus still works for newsgroups - I'm using it
> now to post this - and all my mail groups are OK - but fetching new
> POP mail dies with the error "Mail source error ((void-function
> setenv)). Continue?"

Gah?  Did you use XEmacs before, or Emacs?  Can you get a backtrace?

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Re: nnmail dies on switch to MS Windows

[Paul Smith]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Gah?  Did you use XEmacs before, or Emacs?  Can you get a backtrace?
> 

Xemacs, latest version (2.4.12?) on FreeBSD.

If this is not trivial to fix, I may move my mail over to an IMAP
server and deal with it via nn-imap. I was thinking of doing that
sometime anyway.

Backtrace (I hope I did this correctly):

  # bind (standard-output stack-trace-on-signal debug-on-signal stack-trace-on-error debug-on-error)
  setenv("MAILHOST" "mail.iinet.net.au")
  # bind (from mail-source-string result authentication password function program user port server postscript prescript-delay prescript callback source)
  mail-source-fetch-pop((pop :server "mail.iinet.net.au" :user "pdsmith" :password "<edited out>") (lambda (file orig-file) (nnmail-split-incoming file (quote nnml-save-mail) (quote nil) (nnmail-get-split-group orig-file source) (quote nnml-active-number))))
  funcall(mail-source-fetch-pop (pop :server "mail.iinet.net.au" :user "pdsmith" :password "<edited out>") (lambda (file orig-file) (nnmail-split-incoming file (quote nnml-save-mail) (quote nil) (nnmail-get-split-group orig-file source) (quote nnml-active-number))))
  # (condition-case ... . ((error (byte-code "ÁÂÃ\b\"!¬„ÄÅ!ˆÆ‡" ... 4))))
  # bind (function found)
  # (unwind-protect ...)
  # bind (plugged callback source)
  mail-source-fetch((pop :server "mail.iinet.net.au" :user "pdsmith" :password "<edited out>") (lambda (file orig-file) (nnmail-split-incoming file (quote nnml-save-mail) (quote nil) (nnmail-get-split-group orig-file source) (quote nnml-active-number))))
  # bind (source incomings incoming total new i group-in fetching-sources sources spool-func group temp exit-func method)
  nnmail-get-new-mail(nnml nnml-save-nov "~/Mail/" "gwa.chat")
  # bind (server group)
  nnml-request-scan("gwa.chat" "")
  # bind (gnus-command-method gnus-inhibit-demon mail-source-plugged gnus-command-method group)
  gnus-request-scan("nnml:gwa.chat" (nnml ""))
  # bind (method active method dont-check scan group)
  gnus-activate-group("nnml:gwa.chat" scan)
  # bind (nnmail-fetched-sources gnus-inhibit-demon method group beg ret groups dont-scan n)
  gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group(nil)
  # bind (command-debug-status)
  call-interactively(gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group)
  # (condition-case ... . error)
  # (catch top-level ...)