From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: rmail+Mozilla mail+win2k help Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 19:45:38 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1146732558.936778.169810@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146761361 24009 80.91.229.2 (4 May 2006 16:49:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 16:49:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 04 18:49:18 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fbh0m-0005mT-Rh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 18:49:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fbh0m-0007wH-Ej for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 12:49:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fbh0b-0007v6-IH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 12:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fbh0Y-0007to-T0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 12:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fbh0Y-0007tl-Po for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 12:48:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fbh1C-00064N-IT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 12:49:34 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-13-145.inter.net.il [80.230.13.145]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DGU73419 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 4 May 2006 19:45:32 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <1146732558.936778.169810@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (un3_14qliar@yahoo.com) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:34819 Archived-At: > From: "vpv" > 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.