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urfaust <urfaust@optushome.com.au> writes:

> See below
>
> (setq mail-sources 
>       '((pop :server "mail"
>              :user "one"
>              :password "onesdeepdarksecret")))
>
> (add-to-list 'mail-sources '(pop :server "mail"
>             :user "two"
>             :password "sosecretthatiwouldhavetodosomethinghorridtoyou"))

It doesn't make sense that this works but the original fails.

You said you had

    (setq mail-sources '( (pop ...) (pop ...) ))

Are you sure you didn't have the following?

    (setq mail-sources '((pop ...))
          mail-sources '((pop ...)))

The two-line version will fail, the first one will succeed.
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