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Re: BBDB woes

Hello,

>>>>> In the Message: [Wanderlust English ML: No.05193]
>>>>>   with the date of Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:25:58 +0100
>>>>> [RL] == Richard Lewis <richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk> has written:

RL> Since upgrading to Emacs 24 (from the Debian unstable packages), I'm
RL> having real trouble with my BBDB and I'm not sure where to get
RL> help. There are so many things going wrong that I'm not at a loss to
RL> document them all properly. So here's a list of some of them:

RL>  * BBDB won't parse my .bbdb file anymore; it reports type errors for
RL>    various values in the file. In some places it expects lists and
RL>    finds strings, and in others it expects strings and finds lists.

RL>  * There seem to be at least two versions of BBDB around, 2.36 and
RL>    3.02. I think I've tried installing both. And neither will parse my
RL>    .bbdb file.

I'm using bbdb 2.32 on Emacs 24.1.50, and I don't get any probs.
I think, your .bbdb is corrupted.

When you start WL and get error mesage, open the bbdb buffer.
It show you the problematic point in the .bbdb.

Regards,

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