Gnus broken for directory mail sources

Gnus broken for directory mail sources

[Manoj Srivastava]

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Hi,

        Ever since the following commit:
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Author: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>  2008-04-25 23:29:41
Committer: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>  2008-04-25 23:29:41
Parent: 35bd017c4df7e8cc77c426163b164795b01390c8 (*** empty log message ***)
Child:  96631e197b8c54cbf8c3ea0fc71f50b2795b9c0d (Merge from emacs--rel--22)
Branches: debian, master, remotes/origin/master, remotes/origin/origin
Follows: merge-multi-tty-to-trunk
Precedes: 

    Merge from gnus--devo--0
    
    Revision: emacs@sv.gnu.org/emacs--devo--0--patch-1128
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        I can't run gnus with the following setting:

(setq mail-sources 
      '((directory :path "~/var/spool/mail" :suffix ".spool")))

        I get the failure about "void-variable user". I think this is
 related to the change:
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+2008-04-25  Teodor Zlatanov  <tzz@lifelogs.com>
+
+	* mail-source.el: Load auth-source.el.
+	(mail-source-bind): Add comments.  Call auth-source-user-or-password to
+	get user name or password, if auth-sources is set up.
+
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        For the directory mail source, user name and password do not
 make sense. Reverting emacs to just before that commit allowed things
 to proceed, and for me to send in this bug report.

        manoj


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Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable user)
  (or (auth-source-user-or-password "login" server (quote directory)) user)
  (let ((user ...) (password ...)) (mail-source-run-script prescript (format-spec-make 116 path) prescript-delay) (let (... ...) (dolist ... ...) found))
  (let* ((predicate nil) (suffix nil) (path nil) (postscript nil) (prescript-delay nil) (prescript nil)) (mail-source-set-1 source) (let (... ...) (mail-source-run-script prescript ... prescript-delay) (let ... ... found)))
  (mail-source-bind (directory source) (mail-source-run-script prescript (format-spec-make 116 path) prescript-delay) (let (... ...) (dolist ... ...) found))
  mail-source-fetch-directory((directory :path "~/var/spool/mail" :suffix ".spool") #[(file orig-file) "Ã\bÄÅ	†\x13

Re: Gnus broken for directory mail sources

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:25:20 -0500 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org> wrote: 

MS>         I can't run gnus with the following setting:

MS> (setq mail-sources 
MS>       '((directory :path "~/var/spool/mail" :suffix ".spool")))

MS>         I get the failure about "void-variable user". I think this is
MS>  related to the change:
MS> +2008-04-25  Teodor Zlatanov  <tzz@lifelogs.com>
MS> +
MS> +	* mail-source.el: Load auth-source.el.
MS> +	(mail-source-bind): Add comments.  Call auth-source-user-or-password to
MS> +	get user name or password, if auth-sources is set up.
MS> +

MS>         For the directory mail source, user name and password do not
MS>  make sense. Reverting emacs to just before that commit allowed things
MS>  to proceed, and for me to send in this bug report.

This is fixed in Gnus CVS and will make its way to Emacs CVS.  Make sure
you have the commit from 2008-04-28, the earlier fix from 2008-04-26 was
still not right.  Sorry for the inconvenience, and let me know if it
fixed the problem for you.

Ted