[18075] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.8: Netscape Messenger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Mon Jul 31 13:18:39 2000
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 13:18:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@mit.edu
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[Note that I have NOT cc'd this to the original reportee because I want
some internal input first. -t]
Okay. It's obvious that something new has broken; I've
gotten four reports of this error 255 problem today.
Netscape-movemail never did work fantastically, but this error 255 is a
very real and unexpected thing - in the past it has only occurred when the
user's mail could not be inc'd for whatever reason (no quota, unable to
open the spool, etc).
I am currently changing versions from 4.6 to 4.7x for infoagents netscape,
and some things are temporarily broken as a result of that shift, but I
don't see how netscape-movemail could break that way. So I am inclined to
suspect the Athena version - all reportees have been 8.4.8. But I don't
see how that could break it either. Any thoughts from the Athena gurus?
-Todd
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Jakub Czyz wrote:
> System name: m2-032-15.mit.edu
> Type and version: Ultra-5_10 8.4.8
> Display type: afb
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
> Window manager: mwm
>
> What were you trying to do?
> Receive new e-mail.
>
> What's wrong?
> I was not able to incorporate it. When I try the "get msg" button, a small x-window would appear saying "/mitinfoagents/bin/netscape-movemail" exited with status 255. After hitting ok, and trying again, I get a window saying bookmarks have changed. Save changes. No matter what option I hit, I have my screen fill up with a new window. The console says: netscape: X Error of failed request:BadMatch (invalid parameter atttributes), etc. When I logout and login, I still have mail waiting for me.
> What should have happened:
> I should have been able to read my new messages.
>
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> [Please replace this line with your information.]
>
