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From: Jeremy Hankins <nowan@nowan.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mail source problem (?)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 19:08:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zubrmgq.fsf@opal.nowan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fttf3s17.fsf@opal.nowan.org>

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?

-- 
Jeremy Hankins <nowan@nowan.org>



  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-27  0:08 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 [this message]
2019-01-29 20:24       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-01-30 13:28         ` Jeremy Hankins
2019-02-02 16:29           ` Eric Abrahamsen

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