GNU bug report logs - #31737
26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 19:25:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.1.50

Fixed in version 26.2

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Colin Baxter <m43cap <at> yandex.com>, rpluim <at> gmail.com, 31737 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31737: 26.1.50; Gnus does not use mailutils movemail
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 20:24:46 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> As to whether Gnus should also use that option -- I think it should,
> because the code in mail-source.el which invokes movemail is an almost
> exact copy of its sibling in rmail.el.  It's quite possible that Gnus
> simply uses some old version of what's in Rmail.  (In particular,
> rmail.el already does what I suggested to do in order to invoke
> movemail from mailutils in preference to the version which comes with
> Emacs.)
>
> So I'm CC'ing Lars in the hope that he will decide what to do with
> these two issues.

I don't think that mail-source needs that --emacs switch -- it never
has, I think?  But from what you say, it probably doesn't hurt...

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