Emacs/Gnus expects movemail in the wrong location

[leechuck]

After upgrading from cosmic to disco, Emacs/Gnus would no longer retrieve new mails; at Gnus startup I would get this error message:

Mail source (directory :path "~/Mail/spool" :suffix ".spool") error (Searching for program). Continue? (yes or no)

The actual error message could be found in the *Message* buffer, and fails because Gnus expected movemail at /usr/lib/emacs/26.1/, which had 2 problems:

1. Movemail is in the mailutils which was not installed (not a dependency)

2. After installing the mailutils package, movemail is in /usr/bin/movemail, so had to (setq mail-source-movemail-program "/usr/bin/movemail") in .gnus.el

This resolves the issues which seem to have been caused by emacs no longer providing its own movemail?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: emacs 1:26.1+1-3.2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-13.14-generic 5.0.6
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: i3
Date: Wed May 1 12:20:42 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-02-26 (63 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: emacs
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)