Subject: Re: bug#6969: movemail: /usr/lib/emacs/22.1/x86_64-linux-gnu/movemail: invalid option -- -
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:04:04 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Don Saklad wrote:

> movemail: /usr/lib/emacs/22.1/x86_64-linux-gnu/movemail: invalid option -- -
>
>
> What does that message mean?... it appeared after Esc-x rmail

It means something passed an invalid option to the movemail program. Eg
`movemail --version'. It's supposed to happen, it's part of how
rmail-probe determines what version of movemail you are using. Don't
know why you actually saw the message, but of itself it does not seem
worth worrying about.