(rmail-autodetect): Add .exe extension to movemail on Windows.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/mail/rmail.el b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
index 5f8815bc787..e36b9885841 100644
--- a/lisp/mail/rmail.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
@@ -219,7 +219,15 @@ Otherwise, look for `movemail' in the directories in
       (dolist (dir (append rmail-movemail-search-path exec-path
                            (list exec-directory)))
         (when (and dir (file-accessible-directory-p dir))
-          (let ((progname (expand-file-name "movemail" dir)))
+          ;; Previously, this didn't have to work on Windows, because
+          ;; rmail-insert-inbox-text before r1.439 fell back to using
+          ;; (expand-file-name "movemail" exec-directory) and just
+          ;; assuming it would work.
+          ;; http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-02/msg00087.html
+          (let ((progname (expand-file-name
+                           (concat "movemail"
+                                   (if (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))
+                                       ".exe")) dir)))
             (when (and (not (file-directory-p progname))
                        (file-executable-p progname))
               (let ((x (rmail-probe progname)))