From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: rmail passing movemail an option it doesn't like Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:24:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187400025 22636 80.91.229.12 (18 Aug 2007 01:20:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:20:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: eddy@opera.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 18 03:20:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IMCzG-0007eD-JY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:20:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMCzF-0001hF-TS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMCzD-0001dv-3K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMCzB-0001Zz-9V for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:20:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMCzB-0001Zq-6d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IMCzA-00044e-Uu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IMD2r-00089n-34; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:24:05 -0400 X-Spook: keyhole corporate security embassy csim interception MD5 X-Ran: aRAK_YcGG|ZA{p@U:PK"nWVTANsVu,Q9hFd?%'uZ-3xr1'`N(]=@r|#!`2|J%oo/4disMG X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Edward Welbourne's message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:32:06 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:16386 Archived-At: Edward Welbourne wrote: > Loading rmail...done > Counting messages...done > movemail: /usr/lib/emacs/22.1/i486-linux-gnu/movemail: invalid option -- - > Getting mail from the remote server ... I did: emacs -q --no-site-file (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("pop://username:password@hostname")) M-x rmail and I did not see any such error. So please can you show the minimum settings needed to produce the error. The values of the following variables might also be of interest: rmail-movemail-program rmail-movemail-flags rmail-movemail-variant-in-use also the result of evaluating the function rmail-autodetect