Bug#4354: movemail doesn't work

[eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us (Mark W. Eichin)]

Michael Shields <shields@crosslink.net> writes:
> Package: emacs
> Version: 19.31-2
> 
> movemail complains about not being able to write a temp file in
> /var/spool/mail.
> 
> One fix might be to make it setgid mail, iff the code is written to be
> sufficiently paranoid.

As shipped, it *was* installed setuid root + setgid mail... could you
check your installation and verify, and perhaps be more specific about
movemail's complaint?  Also include the actual modes of your
/var/spool/mail directory, and an indication of what you're using to
invoke movemail. 

% ar p /p/a1/debian/mirror/binary/editors/emacs_19.31-2.deb data.tar.gz | tar tzvf - | grep movemail
-rwsr-sr-x root/mail     14516 1996-06-03 00:05 usr/lib/emacs/19.31/i386-debian-linux/movemail