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-rw-r--r--lisp/mail/rmail.el13
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 739f6f919cc..20a51a2ecc6 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-02-20 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+ * mail/rmail.el (rmail-autodetect): Add .exe extension to movemail
+ on Windows.
+
2008-02-19 Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Set of changes so that "obtrusive" syntactic elements in a
diff --git a/lisp/mail/rmail.el b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
index b3a234a6210..4869f95689e 100644
--- a/lisp/mail/rmail.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
;;; rmail.el --- main code of "RMAIL" mail reader for Emacs
;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,
-;; 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
+;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Maintainer: FSF
;; Keywords: mail
@@ -214,7 +215,15 @@ Otherwise, look for `movemail' in the directories in
(dolist (dir (append rmail-movemail-search-path exec-path
(list exec-directory)))
(when (and dir (file-accessible-directory-p dir))
- (let ((progname (expand-file-name "movemail" dir)))
+ ;; Previously, this didn't have to work on Windows, because
+ ;; rmail-insert-inbox-text before r1.439 fell back to using
+ ;; (expand-file-name "movemail" exec-directory) and just
+ ;; assuming it would work.
+ ;; http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-02/msg00087.html
+ (let ((progname (expand-file-name
+ (concat "movemail"
+ (if (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))
+ ".exe")) dir)))
(when (and (not (file-directory-p progname))
(file-executable-p progname))
(let ((x (rmail-probe progname)))