Hopefully some emacs/gnus adept will have some idea what's going here. I've hit a snag after deciding to use the gentoo approach to acquiring and tracking a fast moving emacs from bzr sources.
I've emerged emacs-vcs and a few required pkgs. After adjusting my emacs init files to suit the new arrangement, when I fire up gnus; I hit failure of `movemail' soon as it tries to check and pull mail. (From *Messages* buffer) ,---- | Reading incoming mail from directory... | Processing mail from ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box... | Reading incoming mail from file... | movemail: Permission denied for /var/spool/mail/harry (1 return). Continue? (y or n) n | Mail source (file :path /var/spool/mail/harry) error (Permission denied for /var/spool/mail/harry). Continue? (y or n) n | Mail source (file :path /var/spool/mail/harry) failed: (error Cannot get new mail) | nnml: Reading incoming mail (no new mail)...done `---- Something in those permisssions is set wrong: ls -ld /var/spool/mail drwxr-xr-x 2 mail root 4096 Dec 19 13:30 /var/spool/mail ls -l /var/spool/mail total 4 -rw------- 1 harry nfsu 676 Dec 19 13:30 harry ls -l /usr/libexec/emacs/25.0.50/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9552 Dec 19 16:19 hexl -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22016 Dec 19 16:19 movemail -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5412 Dec 19 16:19 profile -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21067 Dec 19 16:19 rcs2log -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9636 Dec 19 16:19 update-game-score ------- ------- ---=--- ------- ------- On other Linux OSs I vaguely recall something about movemail being setuid or setgid or maybe both.... perhaps that is the problem. I tried both but the error didn't change
