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> 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.