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xxx messages, 0 new, yyy unread with `Mail' in mode line after vm startup

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From: Jerry
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1992 00:22
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I (sort of) reported this for 5.31, but finally discovered the (real)
problem.  It seems that when I have

  (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("BOX" . vm-mode) auto-mode-alist))

in my ~/.emacs, then vm fails to get new mail upon startup.  (There is
no problem when I comment that line out.)  It behaves this way for vm 5.32
as well.  In 5.31, all I had to do was g (vm-get-new-mail) to
explicitly read my new mail.  In 5.32, when I presss g, I get an

Args out of range: nnnnn, nnnnnn

in the minibuffer.  Here's a stack trace, for what it's worth.

  narrow-to-region(#<marker at 22302 in MBOX> #<marker at 23058 in MBOX>)
  byte-code("D 
\"F	C\"F
C\"" [vm-sr-clip vm-sr-min vm-sr-max nil widen narrow-to-region set-marker] 6)
  byte-code("
HH%KVWX!Y!KZ[-)+)" [vm-sr-clip vm-sr-min vm-sr-max opoint-max crash-buf buffer-read-only old-buffer-modified-p inhibit-local-variables t vm-crash-box buffer-file-name nil buffer-size set-marker make-marker ((byte-code "D 
\"F	C\"F
C\"" [vm-sr-clip vm-sr-min vm-sr-max nil widen narrow-to-region set-marker] 6)) widen buffer-modified-p find-file-noselect insert-buffer-substring 1 write-region (byte-code "AB\"" [buffer-file-name set-file-modes 384] 3) ((error (byte-code "@" [nil] 1))) set-buffer-modified-p kill-buffer (byte-code "A!" [vm-crash-box delete-file] 2) ((error (byte-code "@" [nil] 1)))] 17)
  vm-gobble-crash-box()
  byte-code("

  vm-get-spooled-mail()
  byte-code("B
	jkM#		l	!?0
` fg !i @
Z\\	au!+" [vm-mail-buffer vm-summary-buffer nil major-mode this-command vm-folder-read-only arg vm-primary-inbox-p vm-primary-inbox folder mcount buffer-read-only vm-folder-directory t vm-sr-clip vm-sr-min vm-sr-max vm-totals vm-messages-not-on-disk buffer-name bufferp vm-virtual-mode error "%s cannot be applied to virtual folders." signal folder-read-only vm-check-for-spooled-mail switch-to-buffer get-file-buffer find-file-noselect vm-mode vm-get-spooled-mail vm-assimilate-new-messages message "No n
ew mail." sit-for 4 "" vm-deferred-message vm-emit-totals-blurb vm-thoughtfully-select-message vm-update-summary-and-mode-line read-file-name "Gather mail from folder: " vm-compatible-folder-p "Folder %s is not the same format as this folder." buffer-size set-marker make-marker ((byte-code "D 
\"F	C\"F
C\"" [vm-sr-clip vm-sr-min vm-sr-max nil widen narrow-to-region set-marker] 6)) widen insert-file-contents vm-read-attributes "No messages gathered."] 37)
  vm-get-new-mail(nil)
* call-interactively(vm-get-new-mail)


-Jerry
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