From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 34992@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: bug#34992: 26.1; message-send-mail-with-mailclient mangles MIME messages
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 09:42:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9wyt6aq.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfzat9cc.fsf@mouse.gnus.org>
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
>
>>> No, Emacs copies the message text into the system clipboard and tells
>>> the user to paste it from there into the mail client.
>>
>> I think that's only the default on Windows. On my machines [1] it just
>> silently sends.
>
> I don't think that's the default on any systems -- the first time you
> send an email, Emacs will query the user, and the sensible choice for
> most people would be to specify an SMTP client. That's not possible on
> all systems, though, to -with-mailclient is also an option... but it's
> a very poor option indeed.
>
> But I'm unable to reproduce the reported bug: Message creates a
> multipart message, and the first part of that message is usually a
> text/plain one. The body looks correct to me. However, I doubt there's
> any way to convey to the "system mailer" what you're trying to send a
> multipart message in any reliable way.
>
> So it would perhaps make sense to tell the user that you can't send
> attachments via -with-mailclient if you try to do that?
Sorry for the long delay in replying. Indeed, signalling an error to the
user makes sense to me in this case.
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-22 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-25 12:43 bug#34992: 26.1; message-send-mail-with-mailclient mangles MIME messages David Bremner
2019-03-25 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-25 16:09 ` David Bremner
2019-03-26 15:44 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-26 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-26 17:16 ` David Bremner
2019-05-13 19:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-22 7:42 ` David Bremner [this message]
2019-09-22 22:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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