From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: rmail passing movemail an option it doesn't like Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:05:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187640093 15626 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2007 20:01:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:01:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: eddy@opera.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 20 22:01:30 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 1INDRJ-0004ZG-1A for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:01:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INDRJ-0008Ca-7Q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:01:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INDRH-0008CJ-J6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:01:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INDRH-0008C7-59 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:01:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INDRH-0008C3-1I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:01:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1INDRF-0002HG-TW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:01:26 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1INDVA-0005dV-R8; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:05:28 -0400 X-Spook: propaganda explosion Crowell Ft. Meade Rand Corporation X-Ran: 9%'3R`U44A&;{S]fk'*U}o[]poagQeZ%:9E}&wrPU[Ks^,)`;eh%SPS+B?*jm$'9]#b5%] X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Edward Welbourne's message of "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:08:58 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:16400 Archived-At: Edward Welbourne wrote: > 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. I did try with the mailutils package installed, but still got no error. I do see a way this might happen though. Could you try this patch please (don't forget to re-byte-compile rmail.el): *** rmail.el 8 Aug 2007 07:18:14 -0000 1.433.2.4 --- rmail.el 20 Aug 2007 20:00:10 -0000 *************** *** 1818,1826 **** (buffer-disable-undo errors) (let ((args (append ! (list (or rmail-movemail-program ! (expand-file-name "movemail" ! exec-directory)) nil errors nil) (if rmail-preserve-inbox (list "-p") --- 1818,1828 ---- (buffer-disable-undo errors) (let ((args (append ! (list (progn ! ;; Call for effect, to set r-m-variant-in-use ! ;; and possibly r-m-program. ! (rmail-movemail-variant-p) ! rmail-movemail-program) nil errors nil) (if rmail-preserve-inbox (list "-p")