GNU bug report logs - #67589
Bug with rmail (Emacs 29.1) and movemail 3.16 when password starts with dash symbol

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67589: closed (Bug with rmail (Emacs 29.1) and movemail 3.16
 when password starts with dash symbol)
Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 06:24:02 +0000

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From: rameiko87 <at> posteo.net
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Bug with rmail (Emacs 29.1) and movemail 3.16 when password starts
 with dash symbol
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 18:50:53 +0000

My remote mailbox password starts with a dash. I cannot use rmail 
regardless to whether I store the password in my imaps:// URL or I 
insert the password when prompted, and escaping the dash does not help 
in either case.

As for movemail, when I'm prompted to insert the password I don't 
remember in which cases I was successful (but I'm confident to say that 
the command failed either when the dash was escaped or when it was not). 
I can also report that when the password is included in the URL which I 
pass to movemail, then everything works as expected both when the dash 
is not escaped and when it is.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jakub Ječmínek <kuba <at> kubajecminek.cz>
Cc: rameiko87 <at> posteo.net, 67589-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67589: Bug with rmail (Emacs 29.1) and movemail 3.16 when
 password starts with dash symbol
Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 09:22:54 +0300

> Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 21:20:08 +0000
> From: Jakub Ječmínek <kuba <at> kubajecminek.cz>
> Cc: rameiko87 <at> posteo.net, 67589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Did you try to customize email-movemail-flags to give it the string
> > "--" (i.e. two dashes)?
> 
> I confirm that this works.

Thanks, I'm therefore closing this bug.

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