From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18918 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Mail source problem (?) Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 08:29:46 -0800 Message-ID: <87a7jekvb9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87k1ir8gac.fsf@opal.nowan.org> <875zubqj64.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87fttf3s17.fsf@opal.nowan.org> <875zubrmgq.fsf@opal.nowan.org> <87k1in6wlt.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <871s4us2al.fsf@opal.nowan.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="11966"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 02 17:30:07 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gpyBD-0002x2-Ci for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2019 17:30:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44030 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gpyBC-00088k-CT for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2019 11:30:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34761) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gpyBA-00088f-Fe for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2019 11:30:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gpyB7-0001Jb-Ow for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2019 11:30:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33026 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gpyB6-0001BZ-Fd for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2019 11:30:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gpyB1-0002gl-38 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2019 17:29:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:nUXSa55+RFw6fO+Wv8Usk6BqFtk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "info-gnus-english" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18918 Archived-At: Jeremy Hankins writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: >> Jeremy Hankins 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. I think the solution is just to set mail-source-movemail-program explicitly to the string "movemail", until you've got a newer emacs that does that by default.