From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Rmail Problem Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2020 00:27:06 +0100 Message-ID: <87h7umyi7p.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16892"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 05 01:27:34 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 1jrrZF-0004IW-Q0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2020 01:27:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41196 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrrZE-0007bQ-Qn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 19:27:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55990) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrrYw-0007ai-OS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 19:27:14 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp40.blacknight.com ([46.22.139.223]:42511) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrrYu-0001nG-64 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 19:27:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail04.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.17]) by outbound-smtp40.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46DF81C40FC for ; Sun, 5 Jul 2020 00:27:08 +0100 (IST) Original-Received: (qmail 18285 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2020 23:27:08 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO rt-inspiron-3480) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.79.54.137]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (AES256-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 4 Jul 2020 23:27:08 -0000 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=46.22.139.223; envelope-from=rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com; helo=outbound-smtp40.blacknight.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/07/04 19:27:08 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action 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:123500 Archived-At: 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