From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
Cc: 63311@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63311: 30.0.50; [PATCH] smtpmail-send-it split
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2023 17:46:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835y2g42zj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ttq0nuq5.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> (message from Manuel Giraud on Sun, 05 Nov 2023 15:24:50 +0100)
> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
> Cc: 63311@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2023 15:24:50 +0100
>
> Hi Eli,
>
> I'm still struggling with making 'smtpmail-send-it' async. As I'm using
> message.el, I'm trying to make it work here. But message.el in written
> in such way that it is quite hard to make it work with a threaded
> 'smtpmail-send-it' call.
>
> And then, from a message buffer (with a quite large attachment), I've
> just evaluted the following: (make-thread #'message-send)... and
> everything went ok:
> - Emacs is still responsive: I could switch to other
> buffers, request the status of a VC handled file.
>
> - When the message is finally sent, the buffer is renamed
> accordingly and tagged as sent via mail.
>
> So my question is this one: instead of making 'smtpmail-send-it'
> threaded why not have a threaded version of toplevel commands (such as
> 'message-send')? We could hopefully do the same for sendmail.el. Of
> course, we should have it as opt-in behind customs
> (message-send-in-background and/or mail-send-in-background?)
>
> As for when something goes wrong and we end up in an 'error' call, maybe
> we should fix how 'error' behave inside a thread. What am I missing?
Nothing, AFAIU. Instead of making smtpmail-send-it optionally working
asynchronously, it should be perfectly valid to have a separate
function called, say, message-send-asynchronously, which would work
with background threads and implement the same protocol as the other
MUA's send-it functions do.
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2023-05-05 13:13 bug#63311: 30.0.50; [PATCH] smtpmail-send-it split Manuel Giraud via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-05 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-05-06 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-06 9:34 ` Manuel Giraud via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2023-05-11 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-05-12 6:24 ` Manuel Giraud via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2023-11-07 13:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-03 2:31 ` Richard Stallman
2023-11-03 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-03 13:49 ` Manuel Giraud via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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