From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: 16946@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@"
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 02:33:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87siqwcazb.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
My webspace provider gives usernames that are email addresses. So, the
username for the smtp, pop and imap servers for this email address is "rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com".
I can't use the character "@" in a username though, if it's sent to
movemail then that program will confuse what follows for the server
name. I.e. if I do:-
(setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("imap://rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@myserver.com")
Then everything after the first @ is taken to be the server address.
I can use "%40" as in web addresses instead of the first @. If I do
that then movemail works fine and all my email is downloaded into the
temp file ".newmail-...." Once this happens though Rmail gets confused.
Movemail creates a file containing "%" but Rmail is looking for "%40",
so it can't find the file. It then report no new mail and doesn't copy
the temp file into RMAIL.
To solve this for myself I've edited the function
rmail-insert-inbox-text just after this bit:
;; At this point, TOFILE contains the name to read:
;; Either the alternate name (if we renamed)
;; or the actual inbox (if not renaming).
I've put in some code to substitute %40 for @ in tofile. That fixes the
problem for me, but it's not a real fix.
I think at the least the manual should tell users they can't use
usernames with "@" in them.
BR,
Robert Thorpe
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next reply other threads:[~2014-03-06 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-06 2:33 Robert Thorpe [this message]
2020-12-04 12:04 ` bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@" Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-06 3:06 ` Robert Thorpe
2020-12-06 13:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-06 14:10 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-06 23:50 ` Robert Thorpe
2020-12-07 15:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-14 6:08 ` Robert Thorpe
2020-12-14 16:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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