Hi John,

I think I am having a similar issue. Here is the full text of one of
the errors:
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ERROR: Thursday, November 9, 2006 7:11:04 AM
OS 10.4.8, Eudora, FileMaker, eMA 0403 , db version 0402.

Looping thru messages: Error -1700 in message:
Returned mail: Too many hops 2…

ArchiveMessage, msg not archived: GetCorrespondents:
Getting sender, recipients:
GetRecipientsInfo:
Can't make {"To: <ircc@...>", "To: postmaster@..."} into
type number.

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I have about 30 such errors in the log out of 27,400 messages
archived. I am using OS X version 10.4.8 on Powermac g4 with dual
processors. Thanks in advance for your assistance and for writing
such a cool application!


-Dave



--- In eMA-Talk@yahoogroups.com, John Carlsen <ThinkAgain@...> wrote:
>
> [I am also posting this reply to the eMA-Talk message board. You
> might want to join us there, where more ideas might be available.]
>
> On Nov 1, 2006, at 8:59 am, steve smith wrote:
>
> > I've used eMA successfully on another OS X Mac but I'm having
> > trouble on my iBook. I downloaded the app fine from the web, set it
> > all up, and started archiving. But I keep getting messages that say
> > "Error -1700" and a long string of stuff about the message which
> > was not archived. At this point, 56 error msgs out of 235 emails to
> > archive. Any ideas?
> >
> > Here's a screenshot so you can see what I see--over 300 times!
>
> I take it that you are using version eMA 4.02 or earlier, from the
> screenshot you sent. Much the information I usually need is usually
> in the error message header, which can usually be be found in eMA's
> Error Log, which would also have the complete error message.
> Unfortunately, the error messsage was too long for the dialog to
> display at once, so I can't see what AppleScript couldn't make item
> 25 into. So, as a hint for future error reports, please copy the
> entire error message from the Error Log and paste it into your email,
> if the eMA script has sent it there.
>
> Anyway ;-) I do sort of remember other reports of that error. It did
> not seem to affect most users, but it was a problem for a few others.
> I did a quick check by downloading a fresh copy of eMA 4.02 and doing
> some random archiving, in test mode. There was no problem. It passed
> through that part of the script hundreds of times.
>
> So I suggest the following steps:
>
> 1) If you are using an eMA version earlier than the current one,
> 4.02, please update to that and try again. If you are using 4.02, you
> might try the rather untested version 4.03b1, at:
> http://homepage.mac.com/thinkagain/files/eMA403b1.sit
> It was released to just fix a rare bug for some other users. But it
> was an informal release, and I did not document what problem it cured.
>
> 2) If the error message is saved in the Error Log, copy the whole
> message there to your email report. Otherwise, try to see the end of
> the error message dialog and include that.
>
> 3) If you haven't already, try archiving from a different mailbox. It
> may be that one has mail of some special format.
>
> This might help me to figure out your error messages.
>
> OR, since you are starting anew on a different computer, you might
> want to just try the latest beta version, eMA 4.10b3. This has lots
> of improvements, especially for Mail, even though I have not finished
> all that I want to do for the final 4.10 version.
>
> > I'm running System OS 10.4.8, iBook G4, 1.33 GHz PPC, 256 MB,
> > archiving out of Mail.
> --
> Cheers,
> John
>