GNU bug report logs - #34252
27.0.50; rmail-get-new-mail fails

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: John <jpff <at> codemist.co.uk>

Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 21:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 34252 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: john <jpff <at> codemist.co.uk>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 34252 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34252: 27.0.50; rmail-get-new-mail fails
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:57:14 +0200
> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:10:29 +0000 (GMT)
> From: john <jpff <at> codemist.co.uk>
> Cc: 34252 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> This could be due to a kernel/NFS problem but te effect on using rmail for 
> my user-base is a real problem.  The problems with proto being nil in
> rmail-remote-proto-p is clearly wrong and despite your statement it does 
> happen to me on two diffrent computers/users attempting to read mail in 
> emacs via rmail.

If you leave only the one change in the place where Glenn said proto
could be nil, and revert the changes in the other two places, does the
problem still happen to you?

Thanks.




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