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From: erf@progress.UUCP (Eric Feigenson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Problem with rmail (maybe saveconf)
Keywords: rmail emacs GNU saveconf
Message-ID: <933@progress.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 90 19:58:05 GMT
Reply-To: progress!erf@eddie.mit.edu
Organization: Progress Software, Bedford, MA
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I hope someone out there can help me...

I started using saveconf as someone recently suggested (I didn't even know it was
around!) with GNU Emacs 18.55.  However, as soon as I did I started having odd
problems with "rmail", which had been working perfectly.  It may be a coincidence,
but the problems started almost exactly at the time I started using saveconf.

The problem is that as soon as I do a "M-x rmail" I get a message:

	"Symbol's value as variable is void: rmail-inbox-list"

and an occasional similar message with rmail-inbox-list replaced by nil (that is,
the three letters n i l).  This seems to happen mainly when rmail has already
been run.

I just tried it again, and I can't issue the "h" (for headers) command... the
'h' just gets inserted in the buffer.

If I do another "M-x rmail", things seem to work, until I give the 'q' command,
at which point I get the message "Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p, nil".
Issuing the 'h' command at this point yields the same message.

As I say, I don't know for sure if it's an interaction with saveconf, but it
sure looks suspicious.  If anyone has *any* idea what's going on, I'd appreciate
it if you'd let me know.  If you have a fix, that's even better!

Please reply to progress!erf@eddie.mit.edu, as the From: headers usually get
pretty badly munged.

Thanks!

-Eric

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Eric R. Feigenson			UUCP: mit-eddie!progress!erf
Progress Software Corp.		    Internet: progress!erf@eddie.mit.edu
5 Oak Park, Bedford, MA  01730