From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mike Gran" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Rmail, movemail and maildir Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 07:21:03 -0700 Message-ID: <20170405142103.GA30725@joshua.dnsalias.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1491407930 486 195.159.176.226 (5 Apr 2017 15:58:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 15:58:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 05 17:58:45 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cvnKX-00081H-55 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:58:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41126 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvnKd-00031C-6x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2017 11:58:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43831) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvlo7-0001yL-Mc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2017 10:21:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvlo2-0000dH-OB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2017 10:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from nm22-vm2.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com ([98.138.91.210]:57608) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvlo2-0000cz-Gm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2017 10:21:06 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1491402064; bh=mTdB2odLqf+XjIEB2kC7AJj8gjicuyL22aSnIH7RGXs=; h=From:Date:To:Subject:From:Subject; b=U8suAg8pXUkTDktOuTDfg2TL7mQoyPNI77h3ZJdNCvE1DSQ5f2sEl/vBkthUWm47/1EkOjKdTbQHd8mW3L6hk0Dj3de8gwJ+sjbm2XFCd0j7eWVE3N92iQRqpwziKt7sljvuWxrjvwYbtBX5MkuqhNhQEbZUFBYr1beJHfvNrGBEx6XZJwEsav0Zid1AEwDWehulq1r671CDkdW1brtthGDJPZ/A8aMN3A+6DLzO5tVgzwSgTnGmHNZISO1TrUfRc3jIwV91wSxkPFqBWi8Vuos+S0ueJPF9IQ0bOluSBEFuqo5SHZoP5ly2JErDg9ajeWkSXAXVcdgOLKI1lx8X6A== Original-Received: from [98.138.100.116] by nm22.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Apr 2017 14:21:04 -0000 Original-Received: from [98.138.84.39] by tm107.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Apr 2017 14:21:04 -0000 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp107.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Apr 2017 14:21:04 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 847773.6284.bm@smtp107.mail.ne1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: Ot1iJM0VM1n12W82hGt_yjmf2h7S8xiE7mFLf2JMRLU27C. dGkjUSmPfEwhs00wVODf8KSQaYl7TWb6A25sF7I.as.wAkGPM6GW6cfZqFPf wRkX8xv16KrkipjhEZrFERWVhk0fVsc3kLKz1XSdAcR8_9ra_faQL5FUBUbq yAYFiUHLrxt8JrD5gsCEX_k15bR1MRRc9FSJv8_h1G0XALheQRGAb8cgz3eZ rqhnlMzRz7TnEtoIvTk7a1.EWjI0jT9ETkxhkJbnf0Vwu2dCQ2oy744n4rd1 8pi6bSLsivbkIab90W_t3ZzJkwbL5wc0vHLmySvmNalYyRzxu1x1aNxA2F7u kMEZukvLP40CAgSotOCYRGawlJyTXDQpJtt.XoWfR7o3ts.PqU4BgAxx1XIk dFwzuQX5q5hnAXrzjfuQpaiXj1EMyldQsXgZXTeGGJNOyESa1pj_DsnyMwhc DjUK_RZvrj0.J.PCGdsQtM1X0zpMjYrYeQCF.7sLqogimYmPa0ZA42cj4JpZ 7BT5_2rti4b8pLP2HtrerYQBXB7O0VQoPSfJcNNhKOdUnBv82nx0cgEt8Xef FkUYI_jVN5c2gZVZwljRYkeVJJ9zk0nl5vTB8ysP7qv7Fhp2_ipQppr69OSJ Vpw-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: FzNaA9iswBDuBl1BmgaIRDaP9Q-- Original-Received: by joshua.spikycactus.dnsalias.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 05 Apr 2017 07:21:03 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 98.138.91.210 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 11:58:25 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112694 Archived-At: Hello. This is my first time ever asking for help on emacs, but, this one has me stumped. (This is GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)) I'm trying to set up old-school rmail, and I want it to fetch mail from a Maildir directory on my home filesystem. According to the instructions, I need to install movemail, which I did, and then set some variables. So my .emacs now has ;; MAIL (setq rmail-movemail-program "/usr/local/bin/movemail") (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("maildir:///home/mike/Maildir")) (setq rmail-movemail-flags (list "-p --emacs")) But I can't get emacs rmail to invoke movemail. I can run movemail manually like so, which works. movemail -p --emacs maildir:///home/mike/Maildir ~/RMAIL --verbose The docs here are actually a bit unclear. They discuss how to make a URL for a mailbox for movemail, but they don't tell you where that URL should go. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Movemail.html Thanks in advance, Mike Gran