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bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail
From: |
Colin Baxter |
Subject: |
bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Jun 2018 20:47:47 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
Robert> This is based on message <87po162oze.fsf@nwalsh.com> to
Robert> ding@gnus.org, where someone noted that emacs-26 no longer
Robert> installs movemail, breaking his Gnus setup [1].
Robert> In `mail-source-movemail' in lisp/gnus/mail-source.el, Gnus
Robert> only looks in exec-directory for movemail, even though
Robert> configure looked in PATH to find mailutils movemail and
Robert> decide not to install Emacs' movemail. (rmail doesnʼt have
Robert> this issue, it does runtime detection)
Robert> Gnus should probably look in at least exec-path for movemail
Robert> (after exec-directory). One way to do this would be to
Robert> change the default value of `mail-source-movemail-program to
Robert> be' (executable-find "movemail"), but that has the risk of
Robert> silently switching emacs to using mailutils' movemail
Robert> instead of the emacs one.
Robert> Also, mailutils' movemail has a '--emacs' flag which rmail
Robert> uses. Itʼs not immediately obvious to me if gnus should do
Robert> the same or not.
I don't know whether my input will be relevant, but here goes.
I use gnus and have had no trouble with movemail. In emacs-26.1 I
compiled using ./configure --with-mailutils and in my ~/.emacs I point
the mail-source-movemail-program to "/usr/bin/movemail". Everything
works fine.
Best wishes
- bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail, Robert Pluim, 2018/06/06
- bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail,
Colin Baxter <=
- bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail, Robert Pluim, 2018/06/06
- bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/06/08
- bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail, Robert Pluim, 2018/06/08
- bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/06/08
- bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail, Robert Pluim, 2018/06/08
- bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/06/08
- bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail, Robert Pluim, 2018/06/11
- bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/06/11
- bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail, Robert Pluim, 2018/06/11
- bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/06/11