rmail fails to get new mail, with the following error: rmail-get-new-mail: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil
In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2006-04-17 on pacem, modified by Debian X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60900000 configured using `configure '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--host' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/22.0.50/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/22.0.50/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2 -Wno-pointer-sign' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_IE.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: RMAIL Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t line-number-mode: t Recent input: <right> <left> <escape> x s h e l l <return> d i r SPC / v a r / m a i l / b r <tab> <return> <escape> x r m <return> y q <up> <down> C-x k <return> <escape> x r m <return> y <escape> x e m a c s SPC b u <tab> <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> u <backspace> r e p o <tab> r t SPC t <backspace> e m <tab> SPC <return> Recent messages: File RMAIL is large (38MB), really open? (y or n) Counting messages...done Getting mail from /var/mail/brendan... rmail-get-new-mail: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil call-interactively: Text is read-only Making completion list... Loading help-mode...done Loading emacsbug... Loading regexp-opt...done Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
