bug#2451: 23.0.90; rmail - semi-colon in rmail-primary-inbox-list and movemail

bug#2451: 23.0.90; rmail - semi-colon in rmail-primary-inbox-list and movemail

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

If you have the following:

(setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("pop://ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org"))

then you get this error:

movemail: Could not create mailbox `/home/ams/.newmail-ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org': Requested item not found

I'm not sure to what it is related, but forcing
rmail-insert-inbox-text to replace all semi-colons with dash solved
the problem.  Though, I am getting weird errors from movemail (from
mailutils):

movemail: Cannot append message 2: Cannot allocate memory


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Saving file /home/ams/RMAIL...
Wrote /home/ams/RMAIL
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Computing summary lines...done
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Making completion list...

bug#2451: 23.0.90; rmail - semi-colon in rmail-primary-inbox-list and movemail

[Glenn Morris]

"Alfred M\. Szmidt" wrote:

> If you have the following:
>
> (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("pop://ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org"))
>
> then you get this error:
>
> movemail: Could not create mailbox `/home/ams/.newmail-ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org': Requested item not found


Has this ever worked? Does it work in 22.3? I can't see this syntax
documented anywhere in "Retrieving Mail from Remote Mailboxes" in the
manual.


> Though, I am getting weird errors from movemail (from mailutils):
>
> movemail: Cannot append message 2: Cannot allocate memory

That would seem to be a mailutils problem, not an Emacs one.

bug#2451: 23.0.90; rmail - semi-colon in rmail-primary-inbox-list and movemail

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > If you have the following:
   >
   > (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("pop://ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org"))
   >
   > then you get this error:
   >
   > movemail: Could not create mailbox `/home/ams/.newmail-ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org': Requested item not found

   Has this ever worked? Does it work in 22.3? I can't see this syntax
   documented anywhere in "Retrieving Mail from Remote Mailboxes" in
   the manual.

It worked a week ago, and it worked in 22.3, the syntax is for GNU
mailutils to force apop (which is required to read mail from
fencepost.gnu.org).

The syntax is documented in (mailutils) URL, and in the emacs
documentation it is documented under (emacs) Movemail (which refers to
the mailutils documentation)

How do you mark the bug so that it is not a wishlist?  Not being able
to read mail from the GNU mail server using rmail kinda sucks...

   > Though, I am getting weird errors from movemail (from mailutils):
   >
   > movemail: Cannot append message 2: Cannot allocate memory

   That would seem to be a mailutils problem, not an Emacs one.

Yup, it is fixed upstream now.  But the semi-colon error still occurs,
and works fine if called with the same URL spec from the command line.

Sorry for the late reply, but it is hard to read my mail now when I
cannot fetch mail..

bug#2451: 23.0.90; rmail - semi-colon in rmail-primary-inbox-list and movemail

[Glenn Morris]

"Alfred M\. Szmidt" wrote:

>    > movemail: Could not create mailbox `/home/ams/.newmail-ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org': Requested item not found

Are you sure this isn't also a mailutils problem? What is that error
supposed to mean?

rmail-parse-url on that form returns the same result in the trunk as
it did in 22.3.

Can you read mail using emacs 22.3 at the moment with that setup?
If yes, while movemail is retrieving mail, what is the name of the
.newmail file?
If no, then it's a mailutils issue.

bug#2451: 23.0.90; rmail - semi-colon in rmail-primary-inbox-list and movemail

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   >    > movemail: Could not create mailbox
   >    > `/home/ams/.newmail-ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org':
   >    > Requested item not found

   Are you sure this isn't also a mailutils problem?

Yes, it works from the command line.

   What is that error supposed to mean?

I don't know.

   rmail-parse-url on that form returns the same result in the trunk
   as it did in 22.3.

Maybe it is a problem in how the processes is called?

   Can you read mail using emacs 22.3 at the moment with that setup?

No, Emacs from CVS doesn't use BABYL, which is what 22.3 supports.  I
cannot read maila t all currently using Emacs CVS and movemail.

bug#2451: 23.0.90; rmail - semi-colon in rmail-primary-inbox-list and movemail

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

Been trying to debug this, and the only thing I have managed to figure
out is that replacing the semi-colon with something else makes things
work.  The following,

(call-process "/usr/bin/movemail" nil (current-buffer) nil
	            "pop://ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org" "/home/ams/.newmail-ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org" "PASSWORD")

always produces 

movemail: Could not create mailbox `/home/ams/.newmail-ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org': Requested item not found

But if one replaces the semi-colon in the second argument
(/home/ams/.newmail-...) to movemail, things work.

Passing the same command line directly to bash works as well.

(How does one mark a bug as serious?)

bug#2451: 23.0.90; rmail - semi-colon in rmail-primary-inbox-list and movemail

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:

> Been trying to debug this, and the only thing I have managed to figure
> out is that replacing the semi-colon with something else makes things
> work.  The following,
>
> (call-process "/usr/bin/movemail" nil (current-buffer) nil
> 	            "pop://ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org"
> "/home/ams/.newmail-ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org" "PASSWORD")
>
> always produces 
>
> movemail: Could not create mailbox
> /home/ams/.newmail-ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org': Requested item
> not found
>
> But if one replaces the semi-colon in the second argument
> (/home/ams/.newmail-...) to movemail, things work.

Do you still see this problem in a current Emacs?

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