Re: movemail location

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

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On 06/10/2018 07:59 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Did I succeed to explain myself this time?


Yes, and the suggestion seems good to me. OK to install the attached 
patch into the emacs-26 branch? The idea is to merge it into master 
after that.


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From 2ddd7e5b56ee229ffeb820bddd76918e8bdf5720 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:32:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Improve movemail default

Problem reported for FreeBSD by Joseph Mingrone in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2018-06/msg00262.html
Also see Bug#31737.
* lisp/gnus/mail-source.el (mail-source-movemail):
Take default movemail from $PATH, instead of insisting that
the default be in exec-directory.
---
 lisp/gnus/mail-source.el | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/mail-source.el b/lisp/gnus/mail-source.el
index d2850f4cee..54130132af 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/mail-source.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/mail-source.el
@@ -686,8 +686,7 @@ mail-source-movemail
 		       'call-process
 		       (append
 			(list
-			 (or mail-source-movemail-program
-			     (expand-file-name "movemail" exec-directory))
+			 (or mail-source-movemail-program "movemail")
 			 nil errors nil from to)))))
 	      (when (file-exists-p to)
 		(set-file-modes to mail-source-default-file-modes))
-- 
2.17.1