Re: rmail+Mozilla mail+win2k help

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> 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.