Emacs 26.1 and movemail?

Emacs 26.1 and movemail?

[Norman Walsh]

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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?

[Adam Sjøgren]

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?

[Norman Walsh]

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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?

[Robert Pluim]

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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?

[Adam Sjøgren]

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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