Rmail Problem

Rmail Problem

[Robert Thorpe]

I'm having some problems with Rmail and perhaps with Movemail.

I recently upgraded my computer.  I upgraded Emacs with it, and changed the distro I use.

Since I did that Rmail sometimes gets stuck with particular emails.  There are some that it can't remove from my inbox.  It refuses to proceed after that.  I then have to go to my webmail and delete the email from there.

Has anyone come across this problem before?

I'm using Emacs 26.3 and GNU Mailutils 3.9.  I only use the following configuration:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq rmail-primary-inbox-list
      (cons (concat "pop://"
		    "email address"
		    "password" 
		    "@mymailserver.com")
	    nil))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

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?

BR,
Robert Thorpe

Re: Rmail Problem

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.

Re: Rmail Problem

[Robert Thorpe]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> hard to say without seeing an example of such an email.
>

Can I forward the email to you at your personal address?  I don't want
to forward it to the whole list and it will probably be removed by a spam
filter anyway if I do that.

BR,
Robert Thorpe