From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: rmail pop error Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:27:30 -0500 Message-ID: <39zltzgo4d.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <2k63wxap4s.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <437ihaszib.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203290870 26938 80.91.229.12 (17 Feb 2008 23:27:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:27:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Tim Hesterberg Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 18 00:28:14 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JQsvb-00070u-Ir for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:28:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQsv7-000154-2N for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:27:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQsv2-00013c-Ht for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:27:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQsuz-0000zs-W4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:27:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQsuz-0000zn-TW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:27:33 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JQsuz-0005He-Lo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:27:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JQsuw-0000eu-RT; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:27:30 -0500 X-Spook: Waco, Texas satellite imagery credit card smuggle ANDVT X-Ran: 1ZRw-b0!H*z]wb)j0'Y.G~)E<4!L+EmLV^Ru[Qt6DH<=%YrnYX:&DZMK:7g{6^\RzAY+}8 X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17538 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: > Please do M-x toggle-debug-on-error, provoke the error again, and post > the backtrace. > > What are the values of rmail-movemail-program and > rmail-movemail-variant-in-use after you get the error? > > What does (rmail-autodetect) return? > > Is there a `movemail' executable in exec-directory or exec-path, and > do you have permission to run it? What does `movemail --version' output? It looks to me like rmail-movemail-program is unset for you for some reason, but I'm afraid I can't debug this without more information, since it works for me.