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emacs23 to emacs24: imap shell "Opening nnimap server...failed: Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated ..."

I have attempted migration from emacs23 to emacs24 on Debian/Testing (Jessie).
Imap connection via shell script have ceased to work.

Messages buffer:

Opening nnimap server...
Opening connection to  via shell...
Opening nnimap server...failed: Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.

~/.emacs

'(gnus-secondary-select-methods (quote ((nnimap "" 
   (nnimap-stream shell) 
   (imap-shell-program "exec /home/anfi/bin/imap")))))
Solution

  • Setting imap-shell-program "globally" in ~/.gnus.el fixed the problem.

    (setq imap-shell-program "/home/anfi/bin/imap")