Re: Failing to read new mail

[Chong Yidong]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Getting mail from /mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox...
>     Converting to Babyl format...110
>     rmail-decode-region: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
>
> Could you try doing M-x toggle-debug-on-error before you get new mail?
> That way, when it gets the error, you will get a backtrace.
> Please mail us the backtrace.

The only way that rmail-decode-region can signal that error is if the
FROM or TO argument is not a number.  But rmail-decode-region is only
called from two places in Emacs, and it's impossible for that
condition to occur there.

Does the error happen with emacs -q (or at least with minimal
customizations to tell rmail where to get mail from)?