From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Edward Welbourne Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: rmail passing movemail an option it doesn't like Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:08:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: eddy@opera.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187600948 31872 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2007 09:09:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:09:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 20 11:09:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IN3Fy-0002Hb-MZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:09:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IN3Fz-0006g3-IH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IN3Fx-0006eB-Lg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:09:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IN3Fv-0006bW-CA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:09:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IN3Fv-0006bT-86 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from sam.opera.com ([213.236.208.81]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IN3Fs-0007MV-CV; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:09:00 -0400 Original-Received: from whorl (pat-tdc.opera.com [213.236.208.22]) by sam.opera.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge3) with ESMTP id l7K98wn4024520 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:08:58 GMT Original-Received: from eddy by whorl with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IN3Fq-00011u-Gj; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:08:58 +0200 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:24:05 -0400) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.1/4006/Mon Aug 20 07:33:26 2007 on sam.opera.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:16397 Archived-At: > I did: > emacs -q --no-site-file > (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("pop://username:password@hostname")) > M-x rmail I managed simpler: emacs -q --no-site-file M-x rmail and reproduced the error ! So I'll hazard a guess that your movemail variant is emacs and my problem is actually incompatibility with the mailutils one. Here's the whole of my *Messages* buffer for that session: ("emacs" "-q" "--no-site-file") For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. Loading rmail...done (New file) Counting messages...done movemail: /usr/lib/emacs/22.1/i486-linux-gnu/movemail: invalid option -- - (No new mail has arrived) Eddy.