From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: exmh is supposed to be able to retrieve mail from a pop server. In the absence of a .netrc file it prompts for a password and uses inc.expect to login to the pop server. The inc.expect script if faulty so this doesn't work. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Configure exmh to use pop (Preferences menu) 2.Click on inc 3.Password prompt comes up - enter password (and username if needed) Actual Results: No mail is retrieved. Logs on the pop server don't record any connection attempt Expected Results: The pop server should have been contacted and Mail retrieved. Additional info: exmh depends on nmh. nmh distributed with RH 7.1 won't fetch mail from a pop server unless it is patched as described in bug #41170. However with that patch applied exmh still doesn't get mail from the pop server even though inc from the command line works fine. The problem is with inc.expect. The inc.expect from exmh-2.4 works but exmh-2.4 itself doesn't work with RH 7.1. It looks like an upgrade of Tcl/Tk might be needed to get it to work but I didn't investigate further. Anyway the solution is to get inc.expect from exmh-2.4 or apply the attached patch to inc.expect from exmh-2.3.1 (to achieve the same result).
Created attachment 18850 [details] Patch to fix inc.expect (and ftp.expect) from exmh-2.3.1