rmail passing movemail an option it doesn't like

[Edward Welbourne]

When I invoke rmail for the first time in a session, I get an error from 
movemail:
<quote src="*Messages*">

Loading rmail...done
Counting messages...done
movemail: /usr/lib/emacs/22.1/i486-linux-gnu/movemail: invalid option -- -
Getting mail from the remote server ...
Converting to Babyl format...40
Counting new messages...
Counting messages...40
Counting new messages...done (47)
Saving file /home/eddy/mail/pending/primary...
Wrote /home/eddy/mail/pending/primary
47 new messages read
Loading rmime...done

</quote> Everything works fine despite that, but clearly something's
amiss.  C-h a movemail RET got me no responses and I can't see
anything in my rmail config that obviously sets something to - or --
(I can't tell from the message which is the problem), so I'm
entertaining the delusion that the problem isn't something I
configured for an old version of emacs, that's wrong for the new
version.


In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2007-07-07 on raven, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10300000
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' 
'--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' 
'--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' 
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' 
'--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs22:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/22.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/22.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/22.1/leim'
 '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 
'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g 
-O2''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_GB.ISO-8859-15
  locale-coding-system: iso-8859-15
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: RMAIL

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
<return> C-x o C-x b <return> C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-SPC C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n M-w M-> M-x b u r <return> 
C-y C-x o M-x r e p o <tab> r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Counting messages...40
Counting new messages...done (47)
Saving file /home/eddy/mail/pending/primary...
Wrote /home/eddy/mail/pending/primary
47 new messages read
Loading rmime...done
Mark set [3 times]
Making completion list...
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