Public bug reported:
After upgrading from cosmic to disco, Emacs/Gnus would no longer
retrieve new mails; at Gnus startup I would get this error message:
Mail source (directory :path "~/Mail/spool" :suffix ".spool") error
(Searching for program). Continue? (yes or no)
The actual error message could be found in the *Message* buffer, and
fails because Gnus expected movemail at /usr/lib/emacs/26.1/, which had
2 problems:
1. Movemail is in the mailutils which was not installed (not a
dependency)
2. After installing the mailutils package, movemail is in
/usr/bin/movemail, so had to (setq mail-source-movemail-program
"/usr/bin/movemail") in .gnus.el
This resolves the issues which seem to have been caused by emacs no
longer providing its own movemail?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: emacs 1:26.1+1-3.2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-13.14-generic 5.0.6
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: i3
Date: Wed May 1 12:20:42 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-02-26 (63 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: emacs
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: emacs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug disco emacs
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Emacs/Gnus expects movemail in the wrong location
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