Re: rmail passing movemail an option it doesn't like

[Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>]

Edward Welbourne wrote:

> </quote> and reproduced the error !
> So I'll hazard a guess that your movemail variant is emacs and my
> problem is actually incompatibility with the mailutils one. 

I did try with the mailutils package installed, but still got no
error. I do see a way this might happen though. Could you try this
patch please (don't forget to re-byte-compile rmail.el):


*** rmail.el	8 Aug 2007 07:18:14 -0000	1.433.2.4
--- rmail.el	20 Aug 2007 20:00:10 -0000
***************
*** 1818,1826 ****
  		 (buffer-disable-undo errors)
  		 (let ((args
  			(append
! 			 (list (or rmail-movemail-program
! 				   (expand-file-name "movemail"
! 						     exec-directory))
  			       nil errors nil)
  			 (if rmail-preserve-inbox
  			     (list "-p")
--- 1818,1828 ----
  		 (buffer-disable-undo errors)
  		 (let ((args
  			(append
! 			 (list (progn
! 				 ;; Call for effect, to set r-m-variant-in-use
! 				 ;; and possibly r-m-program.
! 				 (rmail-movemail-variant-p)
! 				 rmail-movemail-program)
  			       nil errors nil)
  			 (if rmail-preserve-inbox
  			     (list "-p")