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bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@"
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@" |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 13:04:57 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> writes:
> 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.
(This bug report unfortunately got no response at the time.)
I don't use pop3 myself, so I can't really test this. I tried looking
in the changelog to see whethers anything has changed in this area, and
I can't see anything in particular... but these days, we recommend the
system-wide movemail implementation, which may or may not have this
limitation.
Are you still seeing this issue in more recent Emacs versions? Having
an "@" in a user name is quote common, so it's odd that we haven't seen
more bug reports about this if it's still an issue.
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- bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@",
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=
- bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@", Robert Thorpe, 2020/12/05
- bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/06
- bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@", Jean Louis, 2020/12/06
- bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@", Robert Thorpe, 2020/12/06
- bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/07
- bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@", Robert Thorpe, 2020/12/14
- bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/14