Re: [h-e-w] compile problem with epop3mail.el on WinXP

[Franklin Lee]

Hi.  try setting to these values in your .emacs (these are what I use).

         max-lisp-eval-depth             30000
         max-specpdl-size                30000


you WILL need to byte compile everything, including the elib package.

I am sorry I haven't been actively maintaining epop3mail other than
for my personal use lately.  I'm still using emacs v20, but have made
some changes that I think will work with v 21.

The version of epop3mail available from the FAQ is somewhat out of
date.  If you can't get your copy to work, let me know & I'll email my
latest to you directly.

BTW, to whom should I send the latest epop3mail package for inclusion
in the latest FAQ?

- franklin

>>  I'm trying to get the epop3 package (downloaded from the link in the
>>  NT-Emacs FAQ) to work.  I'm running emacs 21.2 on a Windows XP system.

>>  I have gotten "string.el" from the elib-1.0 distribution and placed it
>>  in the same directory as epop3mail so that it gets loaded properly.
>>  When I try to byte-compile epop3mail I get the following error message.

>>  Compiling file f:/Programs/emacs-21.2/site-lisp/epop3mail.el at Wed Nov 06
>>  16:45:57 2002
>>    !! error (("Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size"))

>>  (max-specpdl-size has a value of 640)

>>  Doubling the value of max-specpdl-size doesn't change anything.
>>  Trying to load the file directly (without byte-compiling) produces
>>  the same error.

>>  What am I missing here?

>>  Thanks for any help you can provide.

>>  David Nichols
>>  address@hidden