Package: emacs;
Reported by: rgm <at> gnu.org
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:35:04 UTC
Severity: minor
Tags: wontfix
Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):
From: jpff <jpff <at> cs.bath.ac.uk> To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org Subject: 23.1.50; RMAIL mode fails to read mail first time Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:28:18 +0100
This started happening a few days ago. When I invoke rmail command it loads by RMAIL file and then asserts that there it cannot get the po: password, and there is no new mail. I then run (rmail-get-new-mail) explicitely and it works. I have (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("po:jpff" "/var/spool/mail/jpff")) (setenv "MAILHOST" "air.cs.bath.ac.uk") and the password is set (custom-set-variables '(rmail-pop-password-required t) '(rmail-pop-password "xxxxxxxx")) This counts more of an irritation than a bug, but it used to work. On my other network which does not use pop there is no problem. In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.7 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2009-10-12 on xenakis Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10502000 Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: RMAIL Minor modes in effect: auto-image-file-mode: t show-paren-mode: t display-time-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: M-r g M-x r e p o <tab> r <tab> <return> Recent messages: 0 new messages read Loading mail-extr...done Getting mail from the remote server ... Counting new messages... Counting messages...20 Counting new messages...done (30) Saving file /bigdisk/jpff/RMAIL... Wrote /bigdisk/jpff/RMAIL 30 new messages read Making completion list... 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