From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting new mail on Microsoft
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 05:38:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834lcwdwhk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1gJP7X-0001uV-M1@eggs.gnu.org> (message from Xavier Maillard on Sun, 4 Nov 2018 21:35:37 +0100)
> From: Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im>
> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 21:35:37 +0100
>
> MS is really a pain to use for me:/
>
> How do you get your mail using movemail ? Should I rely on an external tool (fetchmail comes to mind for example).
> Actually movemail as provided by GNU Emacs just fails to auth me.
What kind of server do you fetch mail from? Do you per chance have a
shell account on that server?
> [2018-11-04 20:10:20.066] movemail: impossible de créer la boîte aux lettres « d:/Users/xavier/.cache/mail/.newmail-xavier%40maillard.im@mail.gandi.net » : Élément demandé non trouvé
>
> Something odd is happening with paths..
>
> My RMAIL files are in /d/Users/Xavier/.cache/mail which is in reality d:\Users\xavier\.cache\mail
Seems like these are the same directory. Can you manually create a
file by the name it complains about,
d:/Users/xavier/.cache/mail/.newmail-xavier%40maillard.im@mail.gandi.net?
Or maybe it's a bug in ported Mailutils?
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2018-11-02 21:34 Getting new mail on Microsoft Xavier Maillard
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