With the update to emacs 26.1, GNUS fails to find the movemail program without manual configuration. I see that the emacs internal movemail program now isn't any more installed when the MAILUTILS config option is turned on. Perhaps it isn't even built then? Possible fixes (with MAILUTILS option on): * create a link at install time from /usr/local/libexec/emacs/26.1/amd64-portbld-freebsd11.1/movemail to /usr/local/bin/movemail * change the default of mail-source-movemail-program in /usr/local/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/gnus/mail-source.el.gz to "/usr/local/bin/movemail" The workaround is simple: (setq mail-source-movemail-program "/usr/local/bin/movemail") but I think this should work out-of-the-box!
A fix is coming. https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15728
A commit references this bug: Author: jrm Date: Tue Jun 12 16:03:57 UTC 2018 New revision: 472261 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/472261 Log: Emacs ports: Improve consistency between the two Emacs ports and... - [1] Do not link liblockfile when MAILUTILS option is off. Users who want mail functionality should turn on the MAILUTILS option. See PR 227799. - [2] Create a link under exec_directory pointing to ${PREFIX}/bin/movemail. See upstream bug https://bugs.gnu.org/31737 and PR 228833. - Based on user feedback, change the package name for the nox flavor of editors/emacs-devel from emacs-devel_nox to emacs-devel-nox. The original motivation for naming the package emacs-devel_nox was so that PKGNAMESUFFIX would match the flavor names for USES=emacs ports and flavor names cannot contain '-'. - Remove patches that are no longer necessary. The patch emacs-devel/files/patch-configure.ac is no longer necessary because 10.3, which included an old version of texinfo in base, is EOL. The lldb-gud patch is no longer necessary because the LLDB option has been removed. - Update editors/emacs-devel to a newer commit on the upstream master branch. - Customize COMMENT for nox flavor of editors/emacs-devel. PR: 227799 [1], 228833 [2] Submitted by: yasu@utahime.org [1], bengta@sics.se [2] Approved by: ashish Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15728 Changes: head/UPDATING head/editors/emacs/Makefile head/editors/emacs/pkg-plist head/editors/emacs-devel/Makefile head/editors/emacs-devel/distinfo head/editors/emacs-devel/files/extrapatch-lldb-gud.el head/editors/emacs-devel/files/patch-configure.ac head/editors/emacs-devel/pkg-plist
A workaround was added to editors/emacs and editors/emacs-devel. Thank you.
That was quick - thanks a lot! Keep up the good work!