Re: problems with splitting and imap

[Richard Riley]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:13:44 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote: 
>
> TZ> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:31:09 +0200 Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> 
> wrote: 
> RR> A couple of days ago I had to remove all my splitting code because of
> RR> this error:
>
> RR> ,----
> RR> | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp "(Unparsable 
> address -- Strange character \\> found: \">_^_\")")
> RR> |   bbdb/gnus-split-method()
> RR> |   nnimap-split-to-groups(bbdb/gnus-split-method)
> RR> |   nnimap-split-articles(nil "mymail")
> RR> |   nnimap-request-scan(nil "mymail")
> RR> |   gnus-request-scan(nil (nnimap "mymail" (nnimap-stream ssl) 
> (nnimap-address "imap.richardriley.net") (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo") 
> (nnir-search-engine imap)))
> RR> |   gnus-read-active-file-1((nnimap "mymail" (nnimap-stream ssl) 
> (nnimap-address "imap.richardriley.net") (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo") 
> (nnir-search-engine imap)) nil)
> RR> |   gnus-read-active-file()
> RR> |   gnus-group-get-new-news(nil)
> RR> |   gnus-1(nil nil nil)
> RR> |   gnus(nil)
> RR> |   call-interactively(gnus nil nil)
> RR> `----
>
> RR> Could someone please suggest how to fix this/locate the offending message?
>
> RR> I'm talking to a dovecot IMAP server btw.
>
> TZ> Looks like a bug in bbdb/gnus-split-method.  It should return nil if
> TZ> this error happens (or maybe do something smarter, I don't know the code
> TZ> too well so I didn't write a patch).  The error is coming from
> TZ> `rfc822-addresses' which is part of Emacs.
>
> TZ> I am cc-ing the BBDB group for help.
>
> Sorry, the first CC didn't work.  Retrying.  This may get hairy because
> gnu.emacs.gnus is a newsgroup.  I also cc-ed the Ding mailing list for
> Gnus, so replies from BBDB developers make it back to Gnus developers.
>
> Ted

Thanks Ted.

I have to had to remove all splitting client side for the moment :-(

But even a hint as to how to catch the offending mail would be a great
help.