Reporting Bugs

Mailing Lists and USENET Newsgroup

There are two mailing lists and one USENET newsgroup for discussing GNUS related topics. These are intended for exchanging useful information about GNUS, such as bug reports, useful hooks, and extensions of GNUS. If you have any questions or problems, feel free to ask about them. Suggestions are also welcome.

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How to Report a Bug

If you find a bug, it is important to report it and to report it in a way which is useful. If it is a bug of a lisp program, what is the most useful is an exact backtrace information of the lisp program with the version number of GNUS that you are using.

To make the backtrace information, you must set the Emacs variable debug-on-error to t before the error happens. A backtrace obtained from a byte-compiled lisp program is not usually understandable. To make a human readable backtrace, load the source program which is not byte-compiled yet and then produce the error.

See Info file `emacs', node `Bugs', for more information.