Re: Assertion failed

[Yoshiki Hayashi <g740685@komaba.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> Yoshiki Hayashi <g740685@komaba.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> writes:
> 
> > When I enter some group, imap.el gives me this error.
> > error in process filter: Assertion failed: (eq (char-after) 41)
> 
> Do you know what server you're connecting to?  If you don't know, look
> at the first lines of *imap-log* where the server identifies itself.

Yes, it says:
Sun Internet Mail Server - sims.3.5.1999.03.02.17.58.p5

> > * 1 FETCH (... BODY ("TEXT" "PLAIN"  ("CHARSET" "ISO-2022-JP") ...
>                                       ^
> 
> The problem here is a superflous space, which the IMAP specification
> does not allow.
> 
> There are implementation recomendation that says that a IMAP parser
> should not tolerate extra whitespace (which imap.el for this reason is
> picky about). As this doesn't really seem to work in the real world
> I'll probably need to change this in nnimap...

I don't like workaround for broken program, but I need it to
read e-mail here. Sigh...

-- 
Yoshiki Hayashi