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From: "Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw@anthem.cnri.reston.va.us>
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Subject: Re: 19.15b90 VM weirdness
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Reply-To: "Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
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    Me> So I start up VM with my 19.14 configuration, and I can tell
    Me> that VM reads stuff from my spool file because my xbiff icon
    Me> changes to empty.  But then VM signals an error about my
    Me> Crashbox.  If I hit `g' again, VM recovers my mail from my
    Me> Crashbox and displays it to me (I don't think I've lost any
    Me> mail).

Nailed.  Turned out the bug was in a find-file-hook function being
installed by a package called wicos.el, which I'd snagged off the net
years ago and have been using ever since.  This function was changing
the current buffer out from underneath VM so by the time it got to
looking, the Inbox Summary buffer was the current buffer, when VM was
expecting the crashbox buffer.

It took some sleuthing but the fix was easy.  I don't even know if
anybody else out there uses wicos.el so I won't bore you with the
patch.

Sorry about that Kyle.

Why I've never been bitten by this before now, Dr. Himilco only knows.

-Barry

