Re: rmail_ how download emails for secondary email

["జిందం వాఐి" <jindam.vani@disroot.org>]

On 2023-10-03 11:28, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2023 07:16:07 +0530
>> From: జిందం వాఐి <jindam.vani@disroot.org>
>> 
>> * run
>> cd ~/mail
>> movemail -v pops://jindam.vani%40disroot.org:PASSWD@disroot.org:995
>> ~/RMAIL
>> movemail -v pops://jindam.vani%40disroot.org:PASSWD@disroot.org:995
>> ~/disrt
>> 
>> * error
>> movemail: could not create mailbox `pops://jindam.vani%40disroot.org:
>> Invalid port or service specification
> 
> Is this movemail from Emacs, or from then GNU Mailtutils package?  I
> think it's the latter, in which case the error means you are not using
> movemail correctly or something (I have no experience with movemail,
> sorry).
> 
> One question I have to ask is why do you use 995 as the port, while
> your email setup uses different ports?

* do u mean_ "jindam@list.ru" "smtp.mail.ru" 465 "jindam@list.ru"
* port 465 for sending email
* port 995 for pops, assumed it is required
to download emails
* if we dont specify, it assumes 995 [ 1 ]

> Another questions is why are you using jindam.vani@disroot.org as
> username instead of just jindam.vani (since the host is specified
> after that anyway)?

i tried it, same error message

> If the above doesn't help, I suggest to ask this question on the GNU
> Mailutils list, since the problem pertains to that package, not to
> Emacs per se.

[ 1 ] https://mailutils.org/manual/mailutils.html#Remote-Mailboxes


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