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bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@"
From: |
Robert Thorpe |
Subject: |
bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@" |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 02:33:12 +0000 |
My webspace provider gives usernames that are email addresses. So, the
username for the smtp, pop and imap servers for this email address is
"rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com".
I can't use the character "@" in a username though, if it's sent to
movemail then that program will confuse what follows for the server
name. I.e. if I do:-
(setq rmail-primary-inbox-list
'("imap://rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@myserver.com")
Then everything after the first @ is taken to be the server address.
I can use "%40" as in web addresses instead of the first @. If I do
that then movemail works fine and all my email is downloaded into the
temp file ".newmail-...." Once this happens though Rmail gets confused.
Movemail creates a file containing "%" but Rmail is looking for "%40",
so it can't find the file. It then report no new mail and doesn't copy
the temp file into RMAIL.
To solve this for myself I've edited the function
rmail-insert-inbox-text just after this bit:
;; At this point, TOFILE contains the name to read:
;; Either the alternate name (if we renamed)
;; or the actual inbox (if not renaming).
I've put in some code to substitute %40 for @ in tofile. That fixes the
problem for me, but it's not a real fix.
I think at the least the manual should tell users they can't use
usernames with "@" in them.
BR,
Robert Thorpe
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