* Sven Joachim: > It does not, since Emacs is already configured that way. In Emacs 26.2, > the issue will be fixed by the patch at[1] which should probably be > cherry-picked for the Debian package. > > Cheers, > Sven > > > 1. > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-26&id=63f1dc4f7c33cc7cc738dbfae3d8192ae448b2f6
Not sure why this bug doesn't qualify as important. It did break my Gnus setup, but I don't know how often movemail is used these days. Setting mail-source-movemail-program to "movemail" appears to be a feasible workaround.