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> 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.