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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: |
Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:54:26 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> writes:
> I think it's caused by movemail from GNU Mailutils though. Mailutils
> can't deal with two "@" symbols (one in the username and another for the
> server). I can replicate this by using movemail on the command line
> without any Emacs involvement. I think this is a bug in mailutils.
> Would you agree? If so I'll report it.
I'm not quite sure. As you point out:
> I'm not sure that it would be possible for the Mailutils maintainers to
> fix it without changing the options format for the command. On the
> other hand I think the options format really should be changed.
>
> The kludge to fix this is to use "%40" in the email address instead of
> "@". That's what I've been using.
So perhaps we should just fix Emacs to allow %40, and document that.
You said:
> 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.
Could you submit a patch for that, so that we could see what that'd look
like?
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- bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/04
- 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 <=
- 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