Re: Rmail with movemail.

[Alexandros Prekates <aprekates@posteo.net>]

On Mon, 3 May 2021 13:38:33 +0300
Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:

> It think we should ask Sergey Poznyakoff on GNU Mailutils mailing
> list, I am sending copy there.
> 

With help from Sergey the issue was solved. To sum up for 
future reference ,for anyone out there debian buster user 
trying to use movemail as a mail retrieval agent to emacs,
i post the main steps:

1. I compiled mailutils 3.11.1 (debian stable has 3.5 ).
   That didnt work thought because as Sergey explained movemail used
   old libs from the 3.5 dep package.

2.  So i purged 3.5.
    Again i couldnt access the remote posteo.de mailbox with imap.

3.  Last touch: 
    $ sudo apt-get install libgnutls28-dev 
    And reconfigure and compile again so that mailutils have 
    GNUTls support (as you can validate at the end of './configure'
    output.

And now it works. 
$ movemail --debug-level='mailbox.prot'  -vvv -p
'imap://foo%40posteo.net@posteo.de'   "~/mailFromMovemail/"



ps:
(could step 2 also removed  libgnutls28-dev ?)
$ sudo apt-cache depends libgnutls28-dev
.....
Replaces: <gnutls-dev>
    libgnutls28-dev

Anyway. Problem solved.

Alexandros.