Re: gnus-notifications: Wrong type argument: stringp

[Loris Bennett]

"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> All of a sudden, i.e. yesterday I did not have the problem, I get the
> following error when I check for new news:
>
> gnus-notifications: Wrong type argument: stringp, 
> ("loris\\.bennett@fu-berlin\\.de" "HPC-Service\\|hpc@zedat\\.fu-berlin\\.de")
>
> In my .emacs I have:
>
> ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | ...
> | '(gnus-icalendar-org-capture-file "~/git/org.git/gtd.org")
> | '(gnus-icalendar-org-capture-headline (quote ("Exchange")))
> | '(gnus-ignored-from-addresses
> |   (quote
> |    ("loris\\.bennett@fu-berlin\\.de" 
> "HPC-Service\\|hpc@zedat\\.fu-berlin\\.de")))
> | ...
> `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The error goes prevents new news (and mail) from being picked up.
Commenting out the gnus-ignored-from-addresses setting makes the problem
go away.

> I haven't changed gnus-ignored-from-addresses in months if not years.
> The only change I made recently was uncommenting the following lines in
> my .emacs two days ago:
>
> ,---------------------------
> | (require 'gnus-icalendar)
> | (gnus-icalendar-setup)
> | (gnus-icalendar-org-setup)
> `---------------------------
>
> Could the gnus icalendar settings be somehow causing the problem?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Loris

-- 
Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de