Rmail woes

I had set rmail to work and it was working very well and then suddenly: `Getting mail from the remote server...` `movemail: cannot append message 1: Requested item not found` If anyone has experience with this error, please let me know. I am running Fedora

This is not a problem with Rmail, this is a problem with fetching email via `movemail`. Did something change on your system, like a new version of `movemail` or a different setup for fetching email from the server?

Not that I am aware of. I checked the path and now get this error: `Getting mail from the remote server...` `movemail: /usr/libexec/emacs/28.1/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/movemail: invalid option -- '-'` This is my basic configuration, with personal details ommitted: `(use-package rmail` `:config` `(setq mail-source-movemail-program "/usr/libexec/emacs/28.1/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/movemail")` `(setq rmail-movemail-program "/usr/libexec/emacs/28.1/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/movemail")` `(setq rmail-movemail-variant-in-use 'mailutils)` `(setq user-full-name "My name"` `user-mail-address "user-email@com")` `(setq rmail-primary-inbox-list (list "imaps://1234567%40place.com@imap.server.com"))` `(setq rmail-remote-password-required t)` `(setq rmail-remote-password "password")` `(setq rmail-confirm-expunge nil)` `(setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)` `(setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.server.com")` `(setq smtpmail-smtp-service 587)` `(setq rmail-default-file "~/.emacs.d/rmail/RMAIL")` `(setq rmail-file-name "~/.emacs.d/rmail/RMAIL")` `(setq mail-default-headers "FCC: ~/.emacs.d/rmail/sent")` `(setq rmail-default-file "~/.emacs.d/rmail/sent")` `(setq rmail-mime-prefer-html t)` `(setq message-signature "")` `(setq message-auto-save-directory "~/.emacs.d/rmail/messages/")` `(setq rmail-displayed-headers "^From:\\|^Subject:\\|^Date:\\|^Cc:")` `(setq rmail-secondary-file-directory "~/.emacs.d/rmail/")` `(setq rmail-delete-after-output t)` `(setq rmail-enable-mime-composing t)`

Seems like you intend to use `movemail` from GNU Mailutils, but the version actually invoked is the rather limited one that comes with Emacs. So some system configuration tinkering is required...

Thank you very much. I will tinker and revert.

Okay I installed GNU Mailutils from source as Fedora does not have a package for this program. Unfortunately, I still get this message: `movemail: cannot append message 1: Requested item not found`

Are you sure the `movemail` that is being run is the one from Mailutils? How did you make that sure?

I am not sure! I changed the path to /usr/local/bin/movemail

As a makeshift solution I have installed wanderlust but my program of choice would still be rmail because I have used it for years and love its simplicity and speed.