From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6969: movemail: /usr/lib/emacs/22.1/x86_64-linux-gnu/movemail: invalid option -- - Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:04:04 -0400 Message-ID: <3562n8cqkr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310429134 3262 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2011 00:05:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:05:34 +0000 (UTC) To: 6969-done@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 12 02:05:30 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QgQTh-0006Yq-Pk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:05:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51854 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgQTf-00021d-To for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:05:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39782) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgQTN-00020I-RM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgQTL-0002F9-Kr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:05:09 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:54275) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgQTL-0002Ew-70 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:05:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QgQTF-0001fA-Uy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:05:01 -0400 Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:05:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 6969 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Mail-Followup-To: 6969@debbugs.gnu.org, rgm@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by 6969-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D6969.13104290566332 (code D ref 6969); Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:05:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6969-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Jul 2011 00:04:16 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QgQSV-0001e4-0p for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:04:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QgQSR-0001dn-Tr for 6969-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:04:13 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42530) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgQSL-0004vs-U7; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:04:06 -0400 X-Spook: mania constitution passwd Croatian espionage CESID X-Ran: L,,'h&$V}p)GG^tTad7>JVU^&&ugbA^|)A+HqS8b(`+m]4oXQAX2isv??|I6x X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Don Saklad's message of "Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:49:18 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:05:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:48678 Archived-At: Don Saklad wrote: > movemail: /usr/lib/emacs/22.1/x86_64-linux-gnu/movemail: invalid option -- - > > > What does that message mean?... it appeared after Esc-x rmail It means something passed an invalid option to the movemail program. Eg `movemail --version'. It's supposed to happen, it's part of how rmail-probe determines what version of movemail you are using. Don't know why you actually saw the message, but of itself it does not seem worth worrying about.