rmail+Mozilla mail+win2k help

rmail+Mozilla mail+win2k help

[vpv]

problem: when i try to get new mail with emacs rmail from Mozilla Inbox
file i get this error:

rmail: Wrong type argument: listp, "C:/Documents and
Settings/Administrator/Application
Data/Mozilla/Profiles/default/tiv8jw2t.slt/Mail/192.168.12.4/Inbox"

My enviornment is this:

emacs-21.3
Mozilla 1.7.12
Windows 2k

My .emacs mail settings are:

; mail settings
(setq user-full-name "rj")
(setq user-mail-address "r...@host.com")
(setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "192.168.12.4")
(setq smtpmail-smtp-server "192.168.12.4")
(setq smtpmail-local-domain "host.com")
(setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
(setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)

(load-library "smtpmail")
; to be able to read mail with rmail
(setenv "MAILHOST" "mailserver.host.com")
(setq rmail-primary-inbox-list "C:/Documents and
Settings/Administrator/Application
Data/Mozilla/Profiles/default/tiv8jw2t.slt/Mail/192.168.12.4/Inbox")
(setq rmail-pop-password-required t)

If you have any suggestions, help, ideas what causes this problem I'd
be grateful.

Thak you!

Re: rmail+Mozilla mail+win2k help

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "vpv" <un3_14qliar@yahoo.com>
> Date: 4 May 2006 01:49:18 -0700
> 
> problem: when i try to get new mail with emacs rmail from Mozilla Inbox
> file i get this error:
> 
> rmail: Wrong type argument: listp, "C:/Documents and
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Sometimes, computers tell you precisely what is the problem.  Here, it
tells you that it was expecting a list, not a string...

> (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list "C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Application Data/Mozilla/Profiles/default/tiv8jw2t.slt/Mail/192.168.12.4/Inbox")

...while here you set rmail-primary-inbox-list to a string, instead of
to a list (as the name of the variable implies).  Try this instead:

  (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Application Data/Mozilla/Profiles/default/tiv8jw2t.slt/Mail/192.168.12.4/Inbox"))

> If you have any suggestions, help, ideas what causes this problem I'd
> be grateful.

Suggestion: before customizing a variable read its doc string very
carefully.  Whenever a doc string says ``list'', it means a Lisp list,
something like '(foo bar baz), with the quote before it and enclosed
in parentheses.

Re: rmail+Mozilla mail+win2k help

[Henrik Enberg]

vpv <un3_14qliar@yahoo.com> writes:

> problem: when i try to get new mail with emacs rmail from Mozilla Inbox
> file i get this error:
> 
> rmail: Wrong type argument: listp, "C:/Documents and
> Settings/Administrator/Application
> Data/Mozilla/Profiles/default/tiv8jw2t.slt/Mail/192.168.12.4/Inbox"

[...]

> (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list "C:/Documents and
> Settings/Administrator/Application
> Data/Mozilla/Profiles/default/tiv8jw2t.slt/Mail/192.168.12.4/Inbox")

As you can see by the name (and documentation) of this variable, it
should be a list of files.

	(setq rmail-primary-inbox-list 
	      '("c:/Documents and Settings/..."))