GNU bug report logs - #16743
24.3.50; Rmail incompatibility with mailutils-2.99

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ingo Brunberg <ingo_brunberg <at> web.de>

Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
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Subject: bug#16743: closed (24.3.50; Rmail incompatibility with
 mailutils-2.99)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:32:02 +0000

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From: Ingo Brunberg <ingo_brunberg <at> web.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.50; Rmail incompatibility with mailutils-2.99
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:39:30 +0100

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:




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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 16743-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16743: 24.3.50; Rmail incompatibility with mailutils-2.99
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:31:42 -0500

Version: 24.4

Thanks; fixed.
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 179 days ago.

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