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

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 23:47:12 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
>> 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'.
>

OK

> So I think we should install the above.

Are we sure enough that '--emacs' is not needed?

Robert