From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88703 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Adam_Sj=C3=B8gren?= 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 20:00:21 +0200 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <87zhkiqkwa.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> References: <864l2qntpr.fsf@dod.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="1105"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M36907@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Aug 09 20:00:58 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 1hw9CE-000050-CE for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 20:00:58 +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 1hw9Bv-0004w7-Sm; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 13:00:39 -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 1hw9Bp-0004sz-Aj for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 13:00:33 -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 1hw9Bn-0003Ef-2g for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 13:00:33 -0500 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226] helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hw9Bj-0000iL-CX for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 20:00:29 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hw9Bj-0017iU-5D for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 20:00:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ OpenPGP: id=476630590A231909B0A0961A49D0746121BDE416; url=https://asjo.koldfront.dk/gpg.asc Mail-Follow-Up-To: never X-Now-Playing: Markedet Bestemmer, Violeta Violeta, Volume III (Kaizers Orchestra) X-Face: )qY&CseJ?.:=8F#^~GcSA?F=9eu'{KAFfL1C3/A&:nE?PW\i65"ba0NS)97,Q(^@xk}n4Ou rPuR#V8I(J_@~H($[ym:`K_+]*kjvW>xH5jbgLBVFGXY:(#4P>zVBklLbdL&XxL\M)%T}3S/IS9lMJ ^St'=VZBR Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88703 Archived-At: 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 -- "Don't just do something, stand there!" Adam Sjøgren asjo@koldfront.dk