Package: mailutils
Version: 1:3.19-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/movemail.mailutils

Hi. I use VM as my mail reader. I have it set up to FCC messages to
an mbox in ~/mail/Outbound, by setting mail-archive-file-name.

When Emacs writes a message to this file, it seems to prepend a blank
line, like this:

$ head -3 mail/Outbound

From ian Wed May 28 18:17:52 +0100 2025
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 18:17:52 +0100
$

In previous Debian releases that I used, this all worked. Nowadays it
doesn't. Instead, "get new mail" in VM produces an error buffer
called `*output of movemail /home/ian/mail/Outbound /home/ian/mail/INBOX.crash*` containing this:

movemail: could not create mailbox `/home/ian/mail/Outbound': Requested item not found

movemail exited with code 1

It's possible that in previous releases I was using a version of
movemail that came with Emacs.

Thanks,
Ian.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.20-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages mailutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.41-6
ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.38-1
ii libfribidi0 1.0.16-1
ii libgnutls30t64 3.8.9-2
ii libgsasl18 2.2.1-1+b2
ii libldap2 2.6.9+dfsg-2
ii libmailutils9t64 1:3.19-1
ii libncurses6 6.5+20250216-2
ii libpam0g 1.7.0-3
ii libreadline8t64 8.2-6
ii libtinfo6 6.5+20250216-2
ii libunistring5 1.3-2
ii mailutils-common 1:3.19-1

Versions of packages mailutils recommends:
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.98.1-2

Versions of packages mailutils suggests:
pn mailutils-doc <none>
pn mailutils-mh <none>

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