From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rmail Problem
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2020 05:36:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mu4eu1rf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7umyi7p.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (message from Robert Thorpe on Sun, 05 Jul 2020 00:27:06 +0100)
> From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2020 00:27:06 +0100
>
> Some emails cause the problem every few days. For the bad email I got
> most recently it says the following in my messages buffer:
>
> > Getting mail from the remote server...
> > movemail: cannot append message 1: Malformed email address
> > (No new mail has arrived)
>
> There is nothing wrong with the email address that I can see, it's a
> normal x@y.com address. I have tried using both the pop protocol and the imaps protocol. I've also tried using Emacs movemail which gives me the error "movemail: Usage: movemail [-p] inbox destfile".
>
> Is this a movemail problem or an Emacs problem?
hard to say without seeing an example of such an email.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-04 23:27 Rmail Problem Robert Thorpe
2020-07-05 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-07-05 16:48 ` Robert Thorpe
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