From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: xemacs MH-E mode has many problems: - Existing folders aren't found, but can be opened by creating them (?) - "Toolbar spec must be list or nil: #<buffer "draft-1">" when composing a message - "Message xxx doesn't exist" when selecting from inbox - +inbox displays with funny % before date - Occasional complaints that mhparam doesn't work GNU emacs seems to work fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 21.4.13-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Try to use xemacs configured for using mh for mail... 2. 3. Actual Results: See description Additional info:
Does this represent a regression against earlier versions?
This is a regression on xemacs-21.4.12-6 (RH 9), which I'm currently running here. In fact, the much better handling of MH was one of the reasons to switch off GNU emacs. Under RH 10 it is almost useless.
Ok, in that case it would be best to contact the mh-e author (Bill Wohler <wohler>) and also xemacs-beta about these problems. The version of mh-e in RHL9 is 7.1. The current version in xemacs-sumo-20030629 is 7.3. Version 7.2 was in xemacs-sumo-20030414 (though the original xemacs package mh-e-1.20-pkg.tar.gz doesn't seem available anymore), so could you try http://people.redhat.com/petersen/mh-e-7.2-pkg.tar.gz which I just extracted out of it, and see that works any better? Hopefully the problems can be sorted out upstream, otherwise the mh-e package could be reverted.
(By "try" I mean, can you extract the above xemacs elisp package into your ".xemacs/xemacs-packages/" directory and try it in a new xemacs session.)
*** Bug 102045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A new mh-e test package is available from: ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/beta/experimental/packages/mh-e-1.24-pkg.tar.gz Could please install that as I explained earlier and test that? Thanks.
mh-e 7.4.2 is xemacs-sumo-20031003-1, could you please try that? It should be in rawhide soon.
Created attachment 94954 [details] Customization in force
Sorry, not sure what to make of your attachment. Is that needed to reproduce your problem?
Oops, seems that just the attachment got there, not the message. Sorry. Dunno, but the behaviour now looks a lot like "can't find the configuration telling me what to do in each case, so I just bail out at the first sign of trouble", and said configuration should be on what it complains: Toolbar spec must be list or nil: #<buffer "+inbox"> The attachment is my .xemacs/custom.el file, created by using the Options menu of xemacs, and which looks fine to my untrained eye (but might be missing something?).
So if you move this customization out of the way, it mh-e works ok for you??
It works, sort of. But with or without customization it is the same (I scapped .xemacs and started from scratch, same problem). Each command complains about the toolbar (as I stated before), some don't work. Sorry to be of so little help.
Reproduced. Backtrace below. Contacted mh-e upstream for input. Signaling: (error "Toolbar spec must be list or nil" #<buffer "+inbox">) check-valid-instantiator(#<buffer "+inbox"> toolbar) canonicalize-spec(#<buffer "+inbox"> toolbar nil) byte-code("..." [specifier-type res2 noerror spec-list result rest nil throw cann-spec-list t signal error "Invalid list format" canonicalize-spec] 5) canonicalize-spec-list((#<buffer "+inbox"> [mh-xemacs-toolbar-inc-folder-icon mh-inc-folder t "Incorporate new mail in Inbox\nThis button runs `mh-inc-folder' which drags any\nnew mail into your Inbox folder."] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-mime-save-parts-icon mh-mime-save-parts t "Save MIME parts from this message\nThis button runs `mh-mime-save-parts' which saves a message's\ndifferent parts into separate files."] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-previous-undeleted-msg-icon mh-previous-undeleted-msg t "Go to the previous undeleted message\nThis button runs `mh-previous-undeleted-msg'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-page-msg-icon mh-page-msg t "Page the current message forwards\nThis button runs `mh-page-msg'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-next-undeleted-msg-icon mh-next-undeleted-msg t "Go to the next undeleted message\nThe button runs `mh-next-undeleted-msg'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-delete-msg-icon mh-delete-msg t "Mark this message for deletion\nThis button runs `mh-delete-msg'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-refile-msg-icon mh-refile-msg t "Refile this message\nThis button runs `mh-refile-msg'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-undo-icon mh-undo t "Undo last operation\nThis button runs `undo'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-execute-commands-icon mh-execute-commands t "Perform moves and deletes\nThis button runs `mh-execute-commands'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-toggle-tick-icon mh-toggle-tick t "Toggle tick mark\nThis button runs `mh-toggle-tick'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-reply-icon mh-reply t "Reply to this message\nThis button runs `mh-reply'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-alias-grab-from-field-icon mh-alias-grab-from-field t "Grab From alias\nThis button runs `mh-alias-grab-from-field'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-send-icon mh-send t "Compose new message\nThis button runs `mh-send'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-rescan-folder-icon mh-rescan-folder t "Rescan this folder\nThis button runs `mh-rescan-folder'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-search-icon mh-tool-bar-search t "Search\nThis button runs `mh-tool-bar-search-function'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-visit-folder-icon mh-visit-folder t "Visit other folder\nThis button runs `mh-visit-folder'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-preferences-icon mh-tool-bar-customize t "MH-E Preferences"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-help-icon mh-tool-bar-folder-help t "Help! (general help)\nThis button runs `Info-goto-node'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-widen-icon mh-widen t "Widen from the sequence\nThis button runs `mh-widen'"]) toolbar) set-specifier(#<toolbar-specifier global=([toolbar-file-icon toolbar-open t "Open a file"] [toolbar-folder-icon toolbar-dired t "Edit a directory"] [toolbar-disk-icon toolbar-save t "Save buffer"] [toolbar-printer-icon toolbar-print t "Print buffer"] [toolbar-cut-icon toolbar-cut t "Kill region"] [toolbar-copy-icon toolbar-copy t "Copy region"] ...) fallback=((nil)) 0x186> ([mh-xemacs-toolbar-inc-folder-icon mh-inc-folder t "Incorporate new mail in Inbox\nThis button runs `mh-inc-folder' which drags any\nnew mail into your Inbox folder."] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-mime-save-parts-icon mh-mime-save-parts t "Save MIME parts from this message\nThis button runs `mh-mime-save-parts' which saves a message's\ndifferent parts into separate files."] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-previous-undeleted-msg-icon mh-previous-undeleted-msg t "Go to the previous undeleted message\nThis button runs `mh-previous-undeleted-msg'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-page-msg-icon mh-page-msg t "Page the current message forwards\nThis button runs `mh-page-msg'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-next-undeleted-msg-icon mh-next-undeleted-msg t "Go to the next undeleted message\nThe button runs `mh-next-undeleted-msg'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-delete-msg-icon mh-delete-msg t "Mark this message for deletion\nThis button runs `mh-delete-msg'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-refile-msg-icon mh-refile-msg t "Refile this message\nThis button runs `mh-refile-msg'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-undo-icon mh-undo t "Undo last operation\nThis button runs `undo'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-execute-commands-icon mh-execute-commands t "Perform moves and deletes\nThis button runs `mh-execute-commands'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-toggle-tick-icon mh-toggle-tick t "Toggle tick mark\nThis button runs `mh-toggle-tick'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-reply-icon mh-reply t "Reply to this message\nThis button runs `mh-reply'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-alias-grab-from-field-icon mh-alias-grab-from-field t "Grab From alias\nThis button runs `mh-alias-grab-from-field'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-send-icon mh-send t "Compose new message\nThis button runs `mh-send'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-rescan-folder-icon mh-rescan-folder t "Rescan this folder\nThis button runs `mh-rescan-folder'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-search-icon mh-tool-bar-search t "Search\nThis button runs `mh-tool-bar-search-function'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-visit-folder-icon mh-visit-folder t "Visit other folder\nThis button runs `mh-visit-folder'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-preferences-icon mh-tool-bar-customize t "MH-E Preferences"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-help-icon mh-tool-bar-folder-help t "Help! (general help)\nThis button runs `Info-goto-node'"] [mh-xemacs-toolbar-widen-icon mh-widen t "Widen from the sequence\nThis button runs `mh-widen'"]) #<buffer "+inbox">) mh-toolbar-init(:folder) mh-folder-mode() mh-make-folder("+inbox") mh-scan-folder("+inbox" "unseen") mh-visit-folder("+inbox" "unseen") mh-rmail(nil) call-interactively(mh-rmail) command-execute(mh-rmail t) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command)
This also seems to occur with mh-e-1.23-pkg. mh-e 7.2 (1.19) and earlier seem to be ok.
http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200307/msg00138.html Should be fixed in xemacs-sumo-20031003-3. Please confirm.