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bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 18:20:12 +0300

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: m43cap@yandex.com,  31737@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 10:27:13 +0200
> 
> I think the current suggested fix is this:
> 
>                      (append
>                       (list
>                        (or mail-source-movemail-program
> -                          (expand-file-name "movemail" exec-directory))
> +                          "movemail"
>                        nil errors nil from to)))))
>             (when (file-exists-p to)
>               (set-file-modes to mail-source-default-file-modes))
> 
> That will work for people who have Mailutils installed in $PATH, and
> for those who donʼt it should use the exec-directory one.
> 
> The only issue is that people who install Mailutils after they've
> built emacs will now be switched to using the Mailutils movemail, with
> no indication that itʼs happened.

Which is what we want, I think, given the message output by
'configure'.

So I think we should install the above.





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