Using rmail with maildir and isync?

Using rmail with maildir and isync?

[Marc Coquand]

Heya!

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?

Thanks,
Marc

Re: Using rmail with maildir and isync?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.