From: gustav <gustav AT indiana DOT edu>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: POP Rmail in Emacs
Message-Id: <20081212025053.87CD5164085@perth.ovpit.indiana.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:50:53 -0500 (EST)
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If you still use Emacs' original Rmail with POP under Cygwin, you may
have noticed that it doesn't work. The reason is that Rmail tries to
create a file with a ":" in its name, which Cygwin can't do. A simple
remedy is to edit rmail.el as follows:

*** /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/mail/rmail.el    Fri Feb 22 05:51:38 2002
--- rmail.el    Thu Dec 11 21:26:14 2008
***************
*** 1502,1508 ****
             (if rmail-pop-password-required
                 (progn (setq got-password (not (rmail-have-password)))
                        (setq password (rmail-get-pop-password))))
!            (if (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
                 ;; cannot have "po:" in file name
                 (setq tofile
                       (expand-file-name
--- 1502,1508 ----
             (if rmail-pop-password-required
                 (progn (setq got-password (not (rmail-have-password)))
                        (setq password (rmail-get-pop-password))))
!            (if (or (eq system-type 'windows-nt) (eq system-type 'cygwin))
                 ;; cannot have "po:" in file name
                 (setq tofile
                       (expand-file-name


It's best not to touch the original rmail.el, because when you
upgrade, and the file gets overwritten, you'll end up with the same
problem again. Instead, copy rmail.el to your private site-lisp
directory, edit as above, byte-compile, then cons the directory onto
the load-path in the .emacs file.

Happy hacking,

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