From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using rmail with maildir and isync?
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:02:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8634lu982t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D4AI5AF0D7YE.1D14PI1GCBBP@mccd.space> (marc@mccd.space)
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 22:19:37 +0300
> From: "Marc Coquand" <marc@mccd.space>
>
> I noticed that rmail should work with maildirs, assuming you have
> movemail installed.
>
> I made sure movemail is installed and tried setting my maildir using
> set-rmail-inbox-list command and I set it to maildir://~/my-mail, which
> is the folder where my mail is stored. It loads without issue on other
> clients.
>
> However, with rmail I get the error when fetching the mail saying "No
> mail.".
>
> Is there a correct way of connecting rmail to my maildir directory that
> I am missing?
Which movemail did you install? The maildir support will only work
with movemail from GNU Mailutils. It will not work with the
simplified movemail that is part of Emacs.
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2024-09-19 19:19 Using rmail with maildir and isync? Marc Coquand
2024-09-20 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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