Re: Mail source problem (?)

[Eric Abrahamsen]

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.