Variable: movemail-program-name

movemail-program-name is a variable defined in callproc.c.

Value

"movemail"

Documentation

Name of the movemail program distributed with Emacs.

Use this instead of calling movemail directly, as movemail may have been renamed to comply with executable naming restrictions on the system.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 30.1.

Source Code

// Defined in /usr/src/emacs/src/callproc.c
  DEFVAR_LISP ("movemail-program-name", Vmovemail_program_name,
    doc: /* Name of the `movemail' program distributed with Emacs.
Use this instead of calling `movemail' directly, as `movemail'
may have been renamed to comply with executable naming restrictions on
the system.  */);