Subject: bug#16743: closed (Re: bug#16743: 24.3.50; Rmail incompatibility with mailutils-2.99)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:32:03 +0000

Your bug report

#16743: 24.3.50; Rmail incompatibility with mailutils-2.99

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#16743: 24.3.50; Rmail incompatibility with mailutils-2.99
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:31:42 -0500
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Version: 24.4

Thanks; fixed.

Subject: 24.3.50; Rmail incompatibility with mailutils-2.99
From: Ingo Brunberg <[email-masked]>
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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:39:30 +0100
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Rmail determines the wrong value of rmail-movemail-variant-in-use when
working with GNU mailutils-2.99.

The output of "movemail --version" is something like:
movemail (GNU Mailutils) 2.99.98
...

To fix simply remove the space in the pattern with the following patch:

=== modified file 'lisp/mail/rmail.el'
--- lisp/mail/rmail.el	2014-01-22 01:50:40 +0000
+++ lisp/mail/rmail.el	2014-02-13 11:25:28 +0000
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
 	(cond
 	 ((looking-at ".*movemail: invalid option")
 	  'emacs)    ;; Possibly...
-	 ((looking-at "movemail (GNU Mailutils .*)")
+	 ((looking-at "movemail (GNU Mailutils.*)")
 	  'mailutils)
 	 (t
 	  ;; FIXME: