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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rmail, movemail and maildir
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 17:13:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83efx5oc96.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zifuduq2.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (message from Robert Thorpe on Thu, 06 Apr 2017 05:29:41 +0100)

> From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 05:29:41 +0100
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> I use movemail from mailutils, I didn't have to do anything to set that
> up.  When my distro installed it the emacs movemail stopped being the
> default.  I'm not sure exactly how it did that.

Rmail looks for the movemail program on PATH before it looks in its
libexec directory, so if movemail from Mailutils is installed, Rmail
will find it first.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-06 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-05 14:21 Rmail, movemail and maildir Mike Gran
2017-04-05 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-05 18:15 ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-05 18:25   ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-06  4:29 ` Robert Thorpe
2017-04-06 14:13   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-04-06 17:20     ` Mike Gran
2017-04-06 17:54       ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-08 17:33         ` Robert Thorpe

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