bug#4706: 23.1.50; RMAIL mode fails to read mail first time

[Glenn Morris]

jpff wrote:

> This started happening a few days ago.  When I invoke rmail command it
> loads by RMAIL file and then asserts that there it cannot get the po:
> password, and there is no new mail.
[...]
> and the password is set 
>           (custom-set-variables
>            '(rmail-pop-password-required t)
>            '(rmail-pop-password "xxxxxxxx"))

This is probably my mistake. Does it work with 's/pop/remote/' in
those variables names?