[Bug 228833] editors/emacs: GNUS fails to find movemail program after update to 26.1

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            Bug ID: 228833
           Summary: editors/emacs: GNUS fails to find movemail program
                    after update to 26.1
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: emacs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: bengta at sics.se
          Assignee: emacs at FreeBSD.org
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(emacs at FreeBSD.org)

With the update to emacs 26.1, GNUS fails to find the movemail program without
manual configuration.  I see that the emacs internal movemail program now isn't
any more installed when the MAILUTILS config option is turned on.  Perhaps it
isn't even built then?

Possible fixes (with MAILUTILS option on):

* create a link at install time from
/usr/local/libexec/emacs/26.1/amd64-portbld-freebsd11.1/movemail to
/usr/local/bin/movemail

* change the default of mail-source-movemail-program in
/usr/local/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/gnus/mail-source.el.gz to
"/usr/local/bin/movemail"

The workaround is simple:

(setq mail-source-movemail-program "/usr/local/bin/movemail")

but I think this should work out-of-the-box!

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