From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Problem with gnus on emacs-26 on debian 10: "Mail source (file) error (Searching for Program)"
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 16:08:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wofawoph.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874l2epvn5.fsf@yandex.com>
>>>>> Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>:
> As I understand things (WARNING: I understand very little.) the current
> emacs (26.2) configures "--with-mailutils" as a default
> setting. Therefore the movemail program is the one from gnus and
> located (usually) at /usr/bin/movemail. If you build emacs
> "--without-mailutils" then the movemail program used is the one in the
> emacs-exec directory (../local/lib/emacs/...) To confuse things further,
> I believe in past these configure settings were reversed.
> I have configured my emacs explicitly as './configure --with-mailutils'.
> I therefore use /usr/bin/movemail as my movemail program and set
> explicitly as (setq mail-source-movemail-program "/usr/bin/movemail")
Thanks! I'm using the emacs built by debian. I have no idea what build
options and/or patches they have used. :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-18 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-09 17:18 Steinar Bang
2019-08-09 18:00 ` Adam Sjøgren
2019-08-09 19:31 ` Colin Baxter
2019-08-18 10:38 ` Steinar Bang
2019-08-18 10:45 ` Steinar Bang
2019-08-18 11:06 ` Steinar Bang
2019-08-18 11:20 ` Colin Baxter
2019-08-18 14:08 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2019-08-19 10:21 ` Felix Natter
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