From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88704 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Baxter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Problem with gnus on emacs-26 on debian 10: "Mail source (file) error (Searching for Program)" Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 20:31:49 +0100 Message-ID: <87zhkigmoq.fsf@yandex.com> References: <864l2qntpr.fsf@dod.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="115035"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M36908@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Aug 09 21:32:45 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hwAd3-000TlR-0e for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 21:32:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hwAcU-0005ga-Od; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 14:32:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hwAcP-0005dv-OF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 14:32:05 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hwAcL-0004Oo-HQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 14:32:05 -0500 Original-Received: from forward104j.mail.yandex.net ([5.45.198.247]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hwAcG-0001P0-7q for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 21:31:58 +0200 Original-Received: from mxback2o.mail.yandex.net (mxback2o.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1a2d::1c]) by forward104j.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 17C014A1920 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2019 22:31:52 +0300 (MSK) Original-Received: from smtp1j.mail.yandex.net (smtp1j.mail.yandex.net [2a02:6b8:0:801::ab]) by mxback2o.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTP id JhjR5zQ3VE-VpaCPlCl; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 22:31:52 +0300 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.com; s=mail; t=1565379112; bh=rLTSV2kBUVVCGq4Db7pvRu4EE1b2qQQM3HOD89wYf6Q=; h=In-Reply-To:Subject:To:From:Cc:Date:References:Message-ID; b=NiLbzrYxklh1NfWtIi0rcKLMI0Dflsfh5P3WvKmsH/5P356fnmpMAP8X7w4ZY1lJT FoVyf6VOyGUNgqZXJad8hwMJy8smuWMA0P7vFfZNd6GiOBQXXXbvHOIYof15XzwRk4 7jqDAmLIVofwCOATBJG2/G2mTB3XTMAposPVSsoQ= Authentication-Results: mxback2o.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.com Original-Received: by smtp1j.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id 3FXnYO5xYw-VoJC7QsG; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 22:31:51 +0300 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) X-Face: -P+89ASh_wrs;AUGm`!l[}/o-lyK}5W.gq\fkJ{#d6Gu,hWrZNz::iMm5PJb} __A96]-LUrl)X=uF=V|\3-\9/sXvBs/H In-Reply-To: <864l2qntpr.fsf@dod.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Fri, 09 Aug 2019 19:18:08 +0200") Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAMCAIAAACWSshgAAAABmJLR0QA/wD/AP+gvaeTAAAA jUlEQVQ4je2UsQrDMBBDJedciLcM+e/Szyj0G/JdIddepsBtAdljtdxiyc9GNrcNpUBTeWH6AMB7 WZ7rKqaQ1hrMRDtqmqQYUorNM2q9X3kDQer3SarOobLjQITq/qapp8DcZS/wuyA6CBBhET1nGCNr bUAxH6T+Ov7FTBDuHfZczB6Ifde/meqY5J2TTgEOLasK+kYwAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88704 Archived-At: >>>>> Steinar Bang 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 =E2=80=98mail-source.el=E2=80=99. 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 =E2=80=98rmail.el=E2=80=99. Its value is "/var/m= ail/" > 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=3D/var/mail/sb sb@lorenzo:~$ > Does anybody know what the problem might be? > Thanks! > - Steinar > References: [1] > Have you this (setq mail-source-movemail-program "/path/to/movemail") in your ~/gnus.el or ~/.emacs? --=20 Colin Baxter www.Colin-Baxter.com