Re: rmail passing movemail an option it doesn't like

[Glenn Morris]

Edward Welbourne wrote:

> </quote> 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")