bug#2451: 23.0.90; rmail - semi-colon in rmail-primary-inbox-list and movemail

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

If you have the following:

(setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("pop://ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org"))

then you get this error:

movemail: Could not create mailbox 
`/home/ams/.newmail-ams;AUTH=+APOP@fencepost.gnu.org': Requested item not found

I'm not sure to what it is related, but forcing
rmail-insert-inbox-text to replace all semi-colons with dash solved
the problem.  Though, I am getting weird errors from movemail (from
mailutils):

movemail: Cannot append message 2: Cannot allocate memory


In GNU Emacs 23.0.90.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11)
 of 2009-02-23 on beryx
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10402000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  rcirc-track-minor-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
f r m a i l <return> C-x o C-e M-b <return> C-s m o 
v e m a i l C-x 1 C-s C-s C-s C-r C-r C-v C-s . n e 
w C-n C-n C-g C-a C-n C-p C-n C-n C-n C-p C-n C-p C-p 
C-p C-n C-n C-SPC C-e C-g C-n C-a C-SPC C-e M-w C-n 
M-b C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-e <return> C-y ) C-n C-a 
C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-e C-p C-e ) C-n C-a C-k C-k 
C-v C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-e C-p C-f C-d ; C-x 
C-s C-n C-v C-v C-s C-s C-v C-v C-v C-v C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-e C-p C-e C-x C-e M-x r m a i 
l <return> h p d d SPC d d d d d d d d d d d d d d 
d d SPC d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d SPC SPC SPC 
d SPC d d d C-c C-SPC C-x 1 h m p h h <return> C-x 
b r m a <tab> <return> C-x 1 C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-r . n e w C-n M-x r e p o 
<tab> r t <tab> <return>

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