suddenly part of vm not working

suddenly part of vm not working

[John covici]

Hi.  This may be a bit off topic, I hope you can help me either fix or
work around this bug.

I have been using vm for years, through many versions ofemacs and even
23.0.60 -- it did work for a while, now every time I visit a certain
virtual folder I get the following error:

Wrong type argument: sequencep, 40

How can I trace this out, or is it something which is known so I can
fix it -- I know vm has not been maintained for a while?

Thanks -- any advice would be appreciated.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: suddenly part of vm not working

[Stefan Monnier]

> Hi.  This may be a bit off topic, I hope you can help me either fix or
> work around this bug.

Doesn't seem offtopic.

> I have been using vm for years, through many versions ofemacs and even
> 23.0.60 -- it did work for a while, now every time I visit a certain
> virtual folder I get the following error:

> Wrong type argument: sequencep, 40

> How can I trace this out, or is it something which is known so I can
> fix it -- I know vm has not been maintained for a while?

Try to get a backtrace.   E.g. start by setting Options => Enter
Debugger on Error.


        Stefan

Re: suddenly part of vm not working

[John covici]

OK, here is the back trace -- I have the source if necessary.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument sequencep 40)
  mapconcat(identity "(Unparsable address -- Strange character \\;
  found: \";_^_>\")" ", ")
  vm-su-do-recipients([[#<marker at 8340240 in incoming> #<marker at
  8340287 in incoming> #<marker at 8342630 in incoming> #<marker at
  8342798 in incoming> #<m$  vm-su-to([[#<marker at 8340240 in
  incoming> #<marker at 8340287 in incoming> #<marker at 8342630 in
  incoming> #<marker at 8342798 in incoming> #<marker at 83$
  vm-vs-recipient([[#<marker at 8340240 in incoming> #<marker at
  8340287 in incoming> #<marker at 8342630 in incoming> #<marker at
  8342798 in incoming> #<marke$  apply(vm-vs-recipient [[#<marker at
  8340240 in incoming> #<marker at 8340287 in incoming> #<marker at
  8342630 in incoming> #<marker at 8342798 in incoming> #$
  vm-vs-and([[#<marker at 8340240 in incoming> #<marker at 8340287 in
  incoming> #<marker at 8342630 in incoming> #<marker at 8342798 in
  incoming> #<marker at 8$  apply(vm-vs-and [[#<marker at 8340240 in
  incoming> #<marker at 8340287 in incoming> #<marker at 8342630 in
  incoming> #<marker at 8342798 in incoming> #<marke$
  vm-vs-or([[#<marker at 8340240 in incoming> #<marker at 8340287 in
  incoming> #<marker at 8342630 in incoming> #<marker at 8342798 in
  incoming> #<marker at 83$  apply(vm-vs-or [[#<marker at 8340240 in
  incoming> #<marker at 8340287 in incoming> #<marker at 8342630 in
  incoming> #<marker at 8342798 in incoming> #<marker$
  vm-build-virtual-message-list(nil)
  vm-visit-virtual-folder("covici" nil)
  call-interactively(vm-visit-virtual-folder nil nil)
 
and here is my .vm
; -*- emacs-lisp -*-
;;(require 'vm-spamassassin)
(setq vm-mail-header-from "John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>")
(setq vm-primary-inbox "~/mail/incoming")
(setq vm-folder-directory "~/mail/")
(setq vm-mime-alternative-select-method '(favorite "text/plain"))
(setq vm-mime-internal-content-type-exceptions '("text/html"))
(setq vm-visible-headers '("Resent-" "From:" "Sender:" "To:" "Apparently-To:" "Cc:" "Subject:" "Date:" "Lines:"))
(setq vm-forwarding-digest-type nil)
(setq vm-forwarding-subject-format "%s (fwd)")
(setq vm-forwarded-headers '("Resent-" "From:" "Sender:" "To:" "Apparently-To:" "Cc:" "Subject:" "Date:"))
(setq vm-unforwarded-header-regexp nil)
(add-hook 'vm-summary-mode-hook (lambda () (setq truncate-lines nil)))
(setq vm-delete-after-saving t)
(setq vm-move-after-deleting t)
(setq vm-included-text-attribution-format "on %w %02M/%02d/%y %F(%f) wrote\n")
(setq mail-archive-file-name "sent-mail")
(setq vm-mime-default-face-charsets t)

;;;========================================================================
;;; Use abbrevs (expanded right away) instead of aliases (expanded
;;; when sent) for aliases defined in the .mailrc or bbdb
;;;========================================================================
(add-hook 'mail-setup-hook 'mail-abbrevs-setup)
(add-hook 'mail-setup-hook
	   '(lambda ()
	  (substitute-key-definition
	   'next-line 'mail-abbrev-next-line
	   mail-mode-map global-map)
	  (substitute-key-definition
	   'end-of-buffer 'mail-abbrev-end-of-buffer
	   mail-mode-map global-map)))

(setq vm-startup-with-summary t)
(setq vm-virtual-folder-alist '(
("covici" (("~/mail/incoming") (and(recipient "covici") (undeleted) (not(author "root")) (not(author "bbbs-english-list")))))))
;;(setq vm-mime-type-converter-alist
;;      '(
;;        ("text/html" "text/plain" "lynx -force_html  /dev/stdin")))
;;;        ("text/html" "text/plain" "w3m -dump -T text/html")))
;;(add-to-list 'vm-mime-internal-content-type-exceptions "text/html")
;;

on Wednesday 10/15/2008 Stefan Monnier(monnier@iro.umontreal.ca) wrote
 > > Hi.  This may be a bit off topic, I hope you can help me either fix or
 > > work around this bug.
 > 
 > Doesn't seem offtopic.
 > 
 > > I have been using vm for years, through many versions ofemacs and even
 > > 23.0.60 -- it did work for a while, now every time I visit a certain
 > > virtual folder I get the following error:
 > 
 > > Wrong type argument: sequencep, 40
 > 
 > > How can I trace this out, or is it something which is known so I can
 > > fix it -- I know vm has not been maintained for a while?
 > 
 > Try to get a backtrace.   E.g. start by setting Options => Enter
 > Debugger on Error.
 > 
 > 
 >         Stefan
 > 

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: suddenly part of vm not working

[Glyn Millington]

John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> writes:

> Hi.  This may be a bit off topic, I hope you can help me either fix or
> work around this bug.
>
> I have been using vm for years, through many versions ofemacs and even
> 23.0.60 -- it did work for a while, now every time I visit a certain
> virtual folder I get the following error:
>
> Wrong type argument: sequencep, 40
>
> How can I trace this out, or is it something which is known so I can
> fix it -- I know vm has not been maintained for a while?



Hi John,

I know this doesn't address your question directly, but nowadays VM  _is_
actively maintained.



http://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/

Maybe a new version would help?


atb





Glyn

Re: suddenly part of vm not working

[John covici]

Well, I will certainly take a look -- have not seen anything for
years, so  I am glad its still there.

on Wednesday 10/15/2008 Glyn Millington(wistanswick@linuxmail.org) wrote
 > John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> writes:
 > 
 > > Hi.  This may be a bit off topic, I hope you can help me either fix or
 > > work around this bug.
 > >
 > > I have been using vm for years, through many versions ofemacs and even
 > > 23.0.60 -- it did work for a while, now every time I visit a certain
 > > virtual folder I get the following error:
 > >
 > > Wrong type argument: sequencep, 40
 > >
 > > How can I trace this out, or is it something which is known so I can
 > > fix it -- I know vm has not been maintained for a while?
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Hi John,
 > 
 > I know this doesn't address your question directly, but nowadays VM  _is_
 > actively maintained.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > http://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/
 > 
 > Maybe a new version would help?
 > 
 > 
 > atb
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Glyn
 > 
 > 

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: suddenly part of vm not working

[John covici]

OK, now vm-version says ?bug and there are a few additional problems
-- should I send you a private message?  I still get the same error as
before when I visit the virtual folder.  Hope this works out -- seems
as though it should be better, maybe some of my defaults in my .vm are
now wrong.

on Wednesday 10/15/2008 John covici(covici@ccs.covici.com) wrote
 > Well, I will certainly take a look -- have not seen anything for
 > years, so  I am glad its still there.
 > 
 > on Wednesday 10/15/2008 Glyn Millington(wistanswick@linuxmail.org) wrote
 >  > John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> writes:
 >  > 
 >  > > Hi.  This may be a bit off topic, I hope you can help me either fix or
 >  > > work around this bug.
 >  > >
 >  > > I have been using vm for years, through many versions ofemacs and even
 >  > > 23.0.60 -- it did work for a while, now every time I visit a certain
 >  > > virtual folder I get the following error:
 >  > >
 >  > > Wrong type argument: sequencep, 40
 >  > >
 >  > > How can I trace this out, or is it something which is known so I can
 >  > > fix it -- I know vm has not been maintained for a while?
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > Hi John,
 >  > 
 >  > I know this doesn't address your question directly, but nowadays VM  _is_
 >  > actively maintained.
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > http://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/
 >  > 
 >  > Maybe a new version would help?
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > atb
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > Glyn
 >  > 
 >  > 
 > 
 > -- 
 > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
 > How do
 > you spend it?
 > 
 >          John Covici
 >          covici@ccs.covici.com
 > 

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: suddenly part of vm not working

[Glyn Millington]

John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> writes:

> OK, now vm-version says ?bug and there are a few additional problems
> -- should I send you a private message?  

Heavens no, I use Gnus!  There are a couple of newsgroups listed on that
page I mentioned - you might get some help from the VM wizards over
there.

Good luck



Glyn