From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL and movemail? Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:08:24 +0200 Message-ID: <83bm478fp3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <9811-Wed23Jan2019151609+0000-jpff@codemist.co.uk> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="226412"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 23 18:09:45 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gmM24-000wlo-5a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:09:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38699 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmM23-0004EN-4x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:09:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35923) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmM0w-0003ue-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:08:35 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmM0v-0005qE-NX; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:08:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2986 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gmM0v-0000Cy-9z; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:08:33 -0500 In-reply-to: <9811-Wed23Jan2019151609+0000-jpff@codemist.co.uk> (message from John on Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:16:09 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232646 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:16:09 +0000 > From: John > > I am running the latest emacs from master but I am not sure when this > started to happen. > > My raw mail box lives on a mail server machine on the LAN and i read > email either directly there (with alpine usually) or from time to time > I read mail into RMAIL on emacs on this computer. For some time I > have not read it into emacs but now it does not work, nor for the > other main emacs user. It may have been triggered by a replacement > of the mail server (due to a failing disk possible) as the other user > noticed this yesterday. > > Running emacs and looking at RMAIL file I type g, and it fails > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) > string-match("^\\(imap\\|pop\\)s?$" nil nil) > rmail-remote-proto-p(nil) > rmail-insert-inbox-text(("/snout/home/aff/mbox") t) > rmail-get-new-mail-1(nil ("/snout/home/aff/mbox") nil) > rmail-get-new-mail() > rmail() > myrmail() > funcall-interactively(myrmail) > call-interactively(myrmail nil nil) > command-execute(myrmail) > command-line-1(("-f" "myrmail")) > command-line() > normal-top-level() Can you try the emacs-26 branch and see if this problem happens there as well? Thanks.