From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Rmail Problem Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2020 05:36:04 +0300 Message-ID: <83mu4eu1rf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h7umyi7p.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27265"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 05 04:36:27 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jruW3-00070e-Bb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2020 04:36:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37188 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jruW2-00058v-E4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 22:36:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53416) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jruVd-00057F-3D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 22:36:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57039) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jruVc-00052l-QY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 22:36:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1465 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jruVc-0001jn-3Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 22:36:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87h7umyi7p.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (message from Robert Thorpe on Sun, 05 Jul 2020 00:27:06 +0100) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123501 Archived-At: > From: Robert Thorpe > 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.