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Article #8879vm-folder-type bug in 5.33?
From: Tom Lane
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1993 01:55
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1993 01:55
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Hi, I've been having trouble with 5.33 refusing to read in new mail unless INBOX is empty. I traced this to vm-compatible-folder-p returning nil, which in turn seems to be due to vm-folder-type being nil. I'm guessing that the problem is that vm-mode-internal is called before the folder text has been read in, but I'm no elisp expert so I may be all wet. My quick-hack fix was to cut out the calls of vm-compatible-folder-p in the system mailbox reading routines. This clearly doesn't fix the underlying bug, but it's not real clear to me why you're applying that test to the system mailbox anyway. Shouldn't you be able to read in mail regardless of the folder format in use? This is with Emacs 18.58. The local system uses "From_" style mailboxes. (vm-get-folder-type does return 'From_, it's just that that value is not getting into the buffer variable...) Let me know if you need any other info. Is 5.33 still the latest version? regards, tom lane
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