From: Jeremy Hankins <nowan@nowan.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mail source problem (?)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 08:28:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871s4us2al.fsf@opal.nowan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1in6wlt.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> Jeremy Hankins <nowan@nowan.org> writes:
>
>> Just did a bit more looking around and happened to check the messages
>> buffer, and it turns out there was a more complete error message there.
>> The problem was movemail. mail-source-movemail-program wasn't set, and
>> the default value mail-source.el was looking in exec-directory, which
>> didn't have it. Setting the variable manually to "/usr/bin/movemail"
>> solved the problem loading mail from my mail spool. Doesn't explain why
>> toggling debug-on-quit made the message go away, of course.
>>
>> Is this a packaging problem? Should I file a bug with debian? Or
>> should mail-source.el check the path for movemail?
>
> There was a long discussion about this here:
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=31737
>
> Can you take a look at that and see if/how it's relevant to your issue?
Yes, apart from the debugging problems I was having that's the same
issue.
--
Jeremy Hankins <nowan@nowan.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-30 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-26 17:44 Jeremy Hankins
2019-01-26 20:05 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-01-26 23:42 ` Jeremy Hankins
2019-01-27 0:08 ` Jeremy Hankins
2019-01-29 20:24 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-01-30 13:28 ` Jeremy Hankins [this message]
2019-02-02 16:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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