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Subject: Re: Problem with gnus on emacs-26 on debian 10: "Mail source (file) error (Searching for Program)"
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>>>>> 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. :-)