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Re: Mail source problem (?)
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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Re: Mail source problem (?) |
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Sat, 02 Feb 2019 08:29:46 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Jeremy Hankins <nowan@nowan.org> writes:
> 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.
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.
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