GNU bug report logs - #67589
Bug with rmail (Emacs 29.1) and movemail 3.16 when password starts with dash symbol

Previous Next

To reply to this bug, email your comments to 67589 AT debbugs.gnu.org.

Toggle the display of automated, internal messages from the tracker.

Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: rameiko87 <at> posteo.net
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Bug with rmail (Emacs 29.1) and movemail 3.16 when password starts
 with dash symbol
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 18:50:53 +0000

My remote mailbox password starts with a dash. I cannot use rmail 
regardless to whether I store the password in my imaps:// URL or I 
insert the password when prompted, and escaping the dash does not help 
in either case.

As for movemail, when I'm prompted to insert the password I don't 
remember in which cases I was successful (but I'm confident to say that 
the command failed either when the dash was escaped or when it was not). 
I can also report that when the password is included in the URL which I 
pass to movemail, then everything works as expected both when the dash 
is not escaped and when it is.

Message #8 received at 67589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rameiko87 <at> posteo.net
Cc: 67589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67589: Bug with rmail (Emacs 29.1) and movemail 3.16 when
 password starts with dash symbol
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 21:50:26 +0200

> Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 18:50:53 +0000
> From: rameiko87 <at> posteo.net
> 
> My remote mailbox password starts with a dash. I cannot use rmail 
> regardless to whether I store the password in my imaps:// URL or I 
> insert the password when prompted, and escaping the dash does not help 
> in either case.

Did you try to customize email-movemail-flags to give it the string
"--" (i.e. two dashes)?

Message #11 received at 67589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rameiko87 <at> posteo.net
Cc: 67589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67589: Bug with rmail (Emacs 29.1) and movemail 3.16 when
 password starts with dash symbol
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 22:23:08 +0200

> Cc: 67589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 21:50:26 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> > Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 18:50:53 +0000
> > From: rameiko87 <at> posteo.net
> > 
> > My remote mailbox password starts with a dash. I cannot use rmail 
> > regardless to whether I store the password in my imaps:// URL or I 
> > insert the password when prompted, and escaping the dash does not help 
> > in either case.
> 
> Did you try to customize email-movemail-flags to give it the string
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sorry, I meant rmail-movemail-flags.

Message #14 received at 67589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rameiko87 <at> posteo.net
Cc: 67589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67589: Bug with rmail (Emacs 29.1) and movemail 3.16 when
 password starts with dash symbol
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2023 19:05:24 +0200

[Please use Reply All to reply, so that the bug tracker is CC'ed.]

> Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2023 16:48:49 +0000
> From: rameiko87 <at> posteo.net
> 
> Dear Eli,
> Thanks for your reply. I would attempt customizing rmail-movemail-flags 
> , however I'd like to first find a description for the -- flag for 
> movemail, which I couldn't find on the movemail doc. Any idea?

I assumed that "--" means "all that follows cannot be an option".
Since movemail is part of GNU Mailutils, I assumed that it behaves
like all the other GNU programs with respect to options.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.