Bug#4354: movemail doesn't work

[Richard Kettlewell <richard@greenend.org.uk>]

Michael Shields 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.

That's odd.

richard@sfere:richard$ ls -l /usr/lib/emacs/19.31/i386-debian-linux/movemail 
-rwsr-sr-x   1 root     mail        14516 Jun  3 05:05 /usr/lib/emacs/19.31/i386-debian-linux/movemail*
richard@sfere:richard$ 

(I understood that the whole point of movemail was to separate out the
bit of a mailer that needed to be setgid mail into a separate
executable.)

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