From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
Cc: 2451@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2451: 23.0.90; rmail - semi-colon in rmail-primary-inbox-list and movemail
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:29:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m339g2kbsl.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1LtIpW-0004b3-M5@fencepost.gnu.org> (Alfred M. Szmidt's message of "Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:51:54 -0400")
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
> Been trying to debug this, and the only thing I have managed to figure
> out is that replacing the semi-colon with something else makes things
> work. The following,
>
> (call-process "/usr/bin/movemail" nil (current-buffer) nil
> "pop://ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org"
> "/home/ams/.newmail-ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org" "PASSWORD")
>
> always produces
>
> movemail: Could not create mailbox
> /home/ams/.newmail-ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org': Requested item
> not found
>
> But if one replaces the semi-colon in the second argument
> (/home/ams/.newmail-...) to movemail, things work.
Do you still see this problem in a current Emacs?
--
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-13 9:51 bug#2451: 23.0.90; rmail - semi-colon in rmail-primary-inbox-list and movemail Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-09-11 21:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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2009-02-27 8:33 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-27 19:57 ` Glenn Morris
2009-02-28 9:39 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-23 21:31 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-23 22:18 ` Glenn Morris
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