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Lars Tobias Borsting <larstobi@itea.ntnu.no> writes:

>> Press `C-g' and show the resulting backtrace.
>
> I pressed C-g but it didn't pop up any bactrace, it just went on with
> it's next task.

Do `M-x toggle-debug-on-quit' first.

>> I don't know.  A lot of people have tested upgrading from 5.8/5.9 to
>> 5.10 -- but 5.6 is very old.  You could be one the few people who have
>> tried it.
>
> I have got the news stuff working, but I can't seem to get the mail.

Well, the mail feching functions changed a lot between 5.6 and 5.8.
You probably need to update your settings to the "new" functions.

> How can I find out which movemail-program is being used, or where to
> find one and specify it?

There's `mail-source-movemail-program'.

-- 
Jesper Harder                                <http://purl.org/harder/>