bug#9312: 24.0.50; smtpmail

[emacs user]

hello, when sending mail using vm during the past two weeks or so, I am
getting the error bellow.  Please let me know if there are any other
details I can provide.  Thanks...

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
  byte-code("
  smtpmail-via-smtp((#("xx@yy" 0 4 (fontified nil) 4 14 (fontified
nil) 14 28 (fontified nil))) #<buffer  smtpmail temp>)
  smtpmail-send-it()
  mail-send()
  vm-mail-send()
  vm-mail-send-and-exit(nil)


In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.2 (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0, NS apple-appkit-949.54)
 of 2011-08-17 on xx
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.949
configured using `configure  '--with-ns''