From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Getting new mail on Microsoft Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 05:38:47 +0200 Message-ID: <834lcwdwhk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86zhur17v1.fsf@maillard.im> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541389039 9435 195.159.176.226 (5 Nov 2018 03:37:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 03:37:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 05 04:37:15 2018 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 1gJVhS-0002Mn-Tz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 04:37:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33006 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJVjY-0001PE-Uj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 22:39:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44922) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJVj7-0001P3-Ds for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 22:38:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJVj4-0004kN-7M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 22:38:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45427) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJVj2-0004gO-UY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 22:38:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3190 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gJVj2-0004b5-BH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2018 22:38:52 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Xavier Maillard on Sun, 4 Nov 2018 21:35:37 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:118589 Archived-At: > From: Xavier Maillard > 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?