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bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Jun 2018 21:55:20 +0200 |
Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:
>>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
> 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 think itʼs very relevant.
> 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.
So it looks like the --emacs flag is not necessary, which means we
could just change the default of mail-source-movemail-progam. [1]
Robert
Footnotes:
[1] Eli, 26.2? This is an emacs-26 regression
- 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, 2018/06/06
- bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail,
Robert Pluim <=
- 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
- bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail, Colin Baxter, 2018/06/12