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Guan-Hsing Hsu (ghsu@unstable.nswc.navy.mil) wrote:

: while root can use rmail without any problem.   Sounds like the
: standard problem.   After following the comment in etc/movemail.c, I
: allow movemail to be setuid and setgid,  

: -rwsr-sr-x   1 root     mail       20480 Aug  4 17:03 movemail

For reference, the movemail I use on my system has the following perms.
(sgid, not setuid. Also it is owned by bin, not root which makes sense
since /usr/mail is owned by bin)

-rwxr-sr-x   1 bin      mail       

Also, you need to set your exec-directory to point to where movemail is.
Somewhere in your .emacs

 (setq exec-directory "/usr/local/emacs/etc/")

(or wherever movemail is on your system)

It wouldn't hurt to check that the path to movemail has read/exec
perm for bin...

You might want to check what movemail is being executed. It might not
be the one you think...

ESC-ESC exec-directory 

should show you what path is used.

Hope this helps

bruno.