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Subject: Re: pop error in 0.81 and 0.82
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Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes:

| The change below ("diff -u", 0.80 -> 0.82) breaks movemail usage for
| POP mail access:
| 
| --- nnmail.el   Sat Jan 18 13:13:58 1997
| +++ .bad/nnmail.el      Thu Jan 16 18:45:30 1997
| @@ -548,7 +550,7 @@
|                                          exec-directory)
|                        nil errors nil inbox tofile)
|                       (when nnmail-internal-password
| -                       (list nnmail-internal-password))))))
| +                       (list (prin1-to-string nnmail-internal-password)))))))
|                 (if (not (buffer-modified-p errors))
|                     ;; No output => movemail won
|                     (progn
| 
| The problem is that
| 	(list nnmail-internal-password)
| generates
| 	("xxxxx")
| while
| 	(list (prin1-to-string nnmail-internal-password))
| generates
| 	("\"xxxxx\"")
| 
| Reverting to the non-prin1 case makes it work again.

This is my code (sorry); I added it because otherwise passwords with
spaces were being passed to movemail as two separate arguments.

Is there a solution that will work for both of us?

Dan