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Re: movemail location
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Joseph Mingrone |
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Re: movemail location |
Date: |
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 16:03:06 -0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (berkeley-unix) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Joseph Mingrone <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:02:50 -0300
>> Starting with 26.1, we have configured the Emacs package on FreeBSD to use
>> GNU Mailutils. However, now that
>> $PREFIX/libexec/emacs/26.1/amd64-portbld-freebsd11.1/movemail is not
>> installed, we have received
>> reports that Gnus, for example, gives an error about not finding movemail.
>> There are a few different workarounds like patching, creating a link, or
>> asking users to set `mail-source-movemail-program'. Am I
>> missing a configuration option, so that we don't require any of these
>> workarounds?
> Is movemail from Mailutils on PATH? if so, how come Gnus doesn't find
> it, it should find it when it invokes it through call-process.
> Can you spot why this doesn't work?
Hello Eli,
Yes, movemail is in PATH. I think the problem is explained in Robert's
first post of bug 31737 that Paul linked to. That is, movemail is first
searched for in `mail-source-movemail-program', which is nil by default,
then under `exec-directory', where movemail is no longer installed.
Joseph
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- movemail location, Joseph Mingrone, 2018/06/09
- Re: movemail location, Paul Eggert, 2018/06/09
- Re: movemail location, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/06/09
- Re: movemail location,
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- Re: movemail location, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/06/09
- Re: movemail location, Joseph Mingrone, 2018/06/09
- Re: movemail location, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/06/09
- Re: movemail location, Joseph Mingrone, 2018/06/09
- Re: movemail location, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/06/10
- Re: movemail location, Joseph Mingrone, 2018/06/10
- Re: movemail location, Robert Pluim, 2018/06/11
- Re: movemail location, Paul Eggert, 2018/06/14