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

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Duke Normandin <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> 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?

Yes, that's right.  Rmail uses movemail to bring mail from the user's
inbox into the local Rmail file.  Then the elisp functions from rmail.el
are used to view and eventually modify that local file.

I'd suggest to first see if movemail is actually downoading something.
The best way to do so is by starting it from the command line as:

  movemail -p -v imap://your-inbox ./some-mbox

The -p option tells it to preserve all messages on the remote server
and the -v option turns on additional verbosity.  If everything works
as expected and if there are some messages in the remote inbox, they
will end up in the local mailbox ./some-mbox.  You can examine its
contents using several tools from Mailutils:

   messages ./some-mbox  # shows number of messages in it.
   frm ./some-mbox       # prints out from lines and subjects.
   mail -f ./some-mbox   # allows you to browse it.

Regards,
Sergey