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

[Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>]

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

    > Platform: Debian 10.0 "buster", amd64 GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 2,
    > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.4) of 2019-02-03, modified
    > by Debian Gnus v5.13

    > When starting gnus and when fetching new mail and news with 'g', I
    > get the following error message in the minibuffer: Mail source
    > (file) error (Searching for Program)

    > According to the docs[1]: You tell Gnus how to fetch mail by
    > setting mail-sources (see Fetching Mail) to a mail source
    > specifier.

    > Doing 'C-h v mail-sources RET': mail-sources is a variable defined
    > in ‘mail-source.el’.  Its value is ((file))

    > Also according to [1], about "file": :path The file name. Defaults
    > to the value of the MAIL environment variable or the value of
    > rmail-spool-directory (usually something like
    > /usr/mail/spool/user-name).

    > Doing 'C-h v rmail-spool-directory RET rmail-spool-directory is a
    > variable defined in ‘rmail.el’.  Its value is "/var/mail/"

    > which points to the directory where my inbox resides:
    > sb@lorenzo:~$ ls -al /var/mail/sb -rw-rw---- 1 sb mail 28529 Aug 4
    > 10:39 /var/mail/sb sb@lorenzo:~$

    > The MAIL environment variable also points to my inbox:
    > sb@lorenzo:~$ env | grep MAIL MAIL=/var/mail/sb sb@lorenzo:~$

    > Does anybody know what the problem might be?

    > Thanks!


    > - Steinar


    > References: [1]
    > <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Mail-Source-Specifiers.html>

Have you this

(setq mail-source-movemail-program "/path/to/movemail")

in your ~/gnus.el or ~/.emacs?


-- 
Colin Baxter
www.Colin-Baxter.com