* Emacs 26.1 and movemail?
@ 2018-06-04 21:58 Norman Walsh
2018-06-04 22:15 ` Adam Sjøgren
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From: Norman Walsh @ 2018-06-04 21:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
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Hi,
I’m not sure if this is in gnus or deeper/elsewhere. After I upgraded
to Emacs 26.1, movemail wasn’t working anymore. I guess 26.1 doesn’t
ship with movemail in libexec/… anymore.
I couldn’t easily work out which variable it was, so I just symlinked
/usr/bin/movemail there.
Be seeing you,
norm
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* Re: Emacs 26.1 and movemail?
2018-06-04 21:58 Emacs 26.1 and movemail? Norman Walsh
@ 2018-06-04 22:15 ` Adam Sjøgren
2018-06-06 14:02 ` Norman Walsh
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From: Adam Sjøgren @ 2018-06-04 22:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Norman writes:
> Hi,
>
> I’m not sure if this is in gnus or deeper/elsewhere. After I upgraded
> to Emacs 26.1, movemail wasn’t working anymore. I guess 26.1 doesn’t
> ship with movemail in libexec/… anymore.
Maybe the second item in this annotated list of changes in Emacs 26.1 is
related:
· https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-26-1
Best regards,
Adam
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* Re: Emacs 26.1 and movemail?
2018-06-04 22:15 ` Adam Sjøgren
@ 2018-06-06 14:02 ` Norman Walsh
2018-06-06 14:22 ` Robert Pluim
2018-06-06 14:32 ` Adam Sjøgren
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From: Norman Walsh @ 2018-06-06 14:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
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Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:
> Maybe the second item in this annotated list of changes in Emacs 26.1 is
> related:
>
> · https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-26-1
Yes, I understood why the problem arose; what isn’t clear is what part
of gnus (or what part of some other bit of infrastructure that gnus
relies upon) I need to change. Where does gnus get the “I’ll look in
libexec/… for movemail” config from?
Be seeing you,
norm
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* Re: Emacs 26.1 and movemail?
2018-06-06 14:02 ` Norman Walsh
@ 2018-06-06 14:22 ` Robert Pluim
2018-06-06 14:32 ` Adam Sjøgren
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From: Robert Pluim @ 2018-06-06 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Norman Walsh; +Cc: ding
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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
> Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:
>> Maybe the second item in this annotated list of changes in Emacs 26.1 is
>> related:
>>
>> · https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-26-1
>
> Yes, I understood why the problem arose; what isn’t clear is what part
> of gnus (or what part of some other bit of infrastructure that gnus
> relies upon) I need to change. Where does gnus get the “I’ll look in
> libexec/… for movemail” config from?
If the emacs youʼre using was built '--with-mailutils', then movemail
indeeed doesnʼt get installed in libexec. You can in that case specify
the path to the correct movemail binary by customizing
mail-source-movemail-program
to the full path.
The fact that Gnus doesnʼt detect this situation automatically the way
eg rmail does is arguably a bug in gnus.
Robert
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* Re: Emacs 26.1 and movemail?
2018-06-06 14:02 ` Norman Walsh
2018-06-06 14:22 ` Robert Pluim
@ 2018-06-06 14:32 ` Adam Sjøgren
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From: Adam Sjøgren @ 2018-06-06 14:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Norman writes:
> what isn’t clear is what part of gnus (or what part of some other bit
> of infrastructure that gnus relies upon) I need to change. Where does
> gnus get the “I’ll look in libexec/… for movemail” config from?
It looks like it tries the variable mail-source-movemail-program
(defaults to nil) first, and then looks in exec-directory - in the
function mail-source-movemail found in mail-source.el:
· http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/gnus/mail-source.el#n689
Best regards,
Adam
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I just choose to ignore it."
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