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bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@"
From: |
Robert Thorpe |
Subject: |
bug#16946: 24.3; Rmail behaviour with a username containing "@" |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Dec 2020 23:50:32 +0000 |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 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 think that the GNU Mailutils manual should at least mention that it's
necessary. Ideally though, there should be another options format which
splits up the information in a more sensible way. One where the server,
username, port and password are all passed in separate options rather
than one big one.
I will send a message to bug-mailutils@gnu.org.
>> 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?
I forgot to tell you about that part of it. I don't need my work-around
anymore. I think it's been fixed in mailutils. I don't see any fix in
rmail-insert-inbox-text.
The problem was the treatment of the %40. It appears in the filename
"tofile" that's passed in Rmail. In the past, movemail decoded it to @
and created a file with @ in the name. That confused Rmail which didn't
do that with it's tofile. So, I added (setq tofile (url-unhex-string
tofile)) just before Rmail opens the file.
Now though, movemail keeps the URL encoding in the filename, it keeps
the %40 and doesn't change it to @. That solved that problem.
But, you still have to put in %40 when setting the username, and the
Rmail manual doesn't mention that. Perhaps it should, I can write a
patch for that if you want.
BR,
Robert Thorpe