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

["Adam Sjøgren" <asjo@koldfront.dk>]

Steinar writes:

> 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)

Is it trying to shell out to movemail(1) or some such?

,----[ C-h v mail-source-movemail-program RET ]
| mail-source-movemail-program is a variable defined in ‘mail-source.el’.
| Its value is "movemail"
| 
|   This variable may be risky if used as a file-local variable.
|   Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 26.2.
| 
| Documentation:
| If non-nil, name of program for fetching new mail.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
| version 26.2 of Emacs.
`----

(Just a guess.)

Looking at mail-source-fetcher-alist and mail-source-fetch-file, I think
it is.

On Debian movemail(1) lives in the mailutils package: 

 · https://packages.debian.org/buster/mailutils


  Best regards,

    Adam

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