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Rmail is not working with maildirs

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Marc Coquand <marc <at> mccd.space>
Cc: 73470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73470: Rmail is not working with maildirs
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:03:50 +0300

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> From: Marc Coquand <marc <at> mccd.space>
> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:36:28 +0300
> 
> Hi Eli,
> 
> So I tried setting the following
> 
> (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("maildir:///home/me/mail/home"))
> 
> I can see that in ~/mail/home there exists a cur,new and tmp directory
> as well as all other mail folders.
> 
> I also tried the following, since I have one mail directory for work and
> one personal:
> 
> (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("maildir:///home/me/mail/"))
> 
> Neither worked.
> 
> M-x version returns GNU Emacs 29.4 (build 2, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X
> toolkit, cairo version 1.18.0) of 2024-06-25

Are you sure you are using movemail from GNU Mailutils?  What do the
following shell commands produce?

 $ which movemail
 $ movemail

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