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Rmail, movemail and maildir
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Mike Gran |
Subject: |
Rmail, movemail and maildir |
Date: |
Wed, 5 Apr 2017 07:21:03 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) |
Hello. This is my first time ever asking for help on emacs, but,
this one has me stumped.
(This is GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu))
I'm trying to set up old-school rmail, and I want it to fetch
mail from a Maildir directory on my home filesystem. According to
the instructions, I need to install movemail, which I did, and
then set some variables. So my .emacs now has
;; MAIL
(setq rmail-movemail-program "/usr/local/bin/movemail")
(setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("maildir:///home/mike/Maildir"))
(setq rmail-movemail-flags (list "-p --emacs"))
But I can't get emacs rmail to invoke movemail.
I can run movemail manually like so, which works.
movemail -p --emacs maildir:///home/mike/Maildir ~/RMAIL --verbose
The docs here are actually a bit unclear. They discuss how to make
a URL for a mailbox for movemail, but they don't tell you where
that URL should go.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Movemail.html
Thanks in advance,
Mike Gran
- Rmail, movemail and maildir,
Mike Gran <=