From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <9074@debbugs.gnu.org>
Cc: 'Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen' <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: bug#9074: 24.0.50; problems trying to mail bug report, again
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 15:37:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BDDEE81F552741A98172C9265A3732FB@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9C21B0A97EEE4584BC4D0E5E7D1ECB25@us.oracle.com>
Can you please fix this bug once and for all? It's been a month now...
Users with `emacs -Q' should not need to edit the `From' field if they are going
to use mailclient anyway.
This was a silly, misguided, and retrograde change to Emacs. It should be
reverted as soon as possible. It just acts as one more confusing obstacle,
especially for newbies.
As in the past, users should simply be asked whether they want to send the
message - nothing more.
If you want to encourage users to configure mail for SMTP or anything else, that
should be outside the context of a bug report. That is, unless configuration is
absolutely necessary before the message can be sent. But that should be
determined only after an attempt is made to send the message. And mailclient
should be the default, in any case.
If you want to push Emacs users to also use Gnus or a particular mail
client/method, please do it outside of Emacs bug reporting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-09 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-13 23:39 bug#9074: 24.0.50; problems trying to mail bug report, again Drew Adams
2011-07-13 23:54 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-14 0:05 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-14 8:29 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2011-07-14 14:25 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-22 15:05 ` Drew Adams
2011-08-02 4:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-08-02 17:34 ` Drew Adams
2011-08-02 17:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-08-02 18:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-08-02 19:00 ` Drew Adams
2011-08-02 19:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-08-02 21:07 ` Drew Adams
2011-08-02 21:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-08-02 21:40 ` Drew Adams
2011-08-02 22:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-08-04 14:03 ` Jason Rumney
2011-08-04 15:38 ` Drew Adams
2011-08-09 22:37 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-08-22 15:39 ` Drew Adams
2011-08-02 20:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-08-02 15:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-08-02 16:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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