Re: [bug-mailutils] Setting up RMAIL for IMAP

[Duke Normandin]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:38:33 +0300
Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Duke,
> 
> > However, when I fire up RMAIL I get the error message:
> > 
> > movemail: could not create mailbox
> > `imap://my_login_name:address@hidden':Parse
> > error
> 
> This message means that the mailbox URL is incorrect.  It could be,
> for example, if my_login_name or my_password contain characters
> that have special meaning for URLs, such as '@'.  Such characters
> must be replaced with their hex notation.  E.g. if your password is
> 'address@hidden', then the correct URL will be:
> 
>   imap://my_login_name:address@hidden
> 
> Hope that helps.

It sure did help! I can now connect to the IMAP server without errors!
Many thanks! However, somehow the mail (your email) is not showing up.
I'm replying to you now using Sylpheed.

I'm not sure what the "mail moving process" is with "movemail". I think
that I need to wind up with something in the ~/RMAIL file - is that
correct? So does rmail.el tell "movemail" to do just that, or do I have
to specify a folder on the IMAP server and on my local machine, in
my .emacs file? TIA...
-- 
Duke Normandin <address@hidden>