wrong-type-argument when creating a virtual folder

[Willi Langenberger]

Emacs Version: GNU Emacs 23.1
VM Version: 8.1.1 and 8.1.2

The Function

  (vm-create-virtual-folder (quote recipient) "some-string" nil)

gives the error

  (wrong-type-argument sequencep 40)

if the mailbox containes an email with a single semicolon (";") as
To: header line. Eg:

  From: someone <email address hidden>
  To: ;
  Subject: yeah
  ...

Here is the traceback:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument sequencep 40)
  mapconcat(identity
    "(Unparsable address -- Strange character \\; found: \";_^_\")" ", ")
  vm-su-do-recipients([[#<marker at...] ...])
  vm-su-to([[#<marker at...] ...])
  vm-vs-recipient([[#<marker at...] ...] "some-string")
  apply(vm-vs-recipient [[#<marker at...] ...] "some-string")
  vm-vs-or([[#<marker at...] ...] (recipient "some-string"))
  apply(vm-vs-or [[#<marker at...] ...] (recipient "some-string"))
  vm-build-virtual-message-list(nil)
  vm-visit-virtual-folder("vmtest recipient some-string" nil nil)
  vm-create-virtual-folder(recipient "some-string" nil)
  call-interactively(vm-create-virtual-folder nil nil)

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

Sorry, this bug report escaped my notice until now.

However, I am not sure if this kind of a problem should be fixed. Your message doesn't conform to the standards. One might argue that VM should be tolerant of buggy messages, but this isn't really high priority for us.