From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5299: Default mailer (was: custom-reevaluate-setting / custom-initialize-delay) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:15:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: <64d3zvx1zi.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83fx4rn5y9.fsf@gnu.org> <6C9499604D654518BE69C7DC805E18C6@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267043021 14606 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2010 20:23:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:23:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 5299@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 24 21:23:37 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NkNlf-0006yX-Ic for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:15:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=pWE9MxPBVEjx1kMz3IGa6Mgx6+xQ1ogZyvk5YaoSSz8=; b=Lf6PwYM99UrzgV8tVErMFPyf73mxueXNkGsyPMKNFwagsMOxylczvw3ANW4fe0mviz xpLdmo9MecUpY+2I/sZuhwTyqNGR1StBUg2uh9aBSdLe5JzTK3FgfE9cW0BqtNgbQCxY 0pQ5HA/jjRXYcfVyay8goYXjpf+FyNDtvIC+Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=cLY91TtZ8A05B5Q6BHM8QcYMgyGQwuLX3TTjRiCGrgsr4R1pJb7ujT4lmR/hufkMkg yMN5Eb+GLl0COXHjyvAb7qmcgqoAqXh6gk9oFGnjn3Iqv0iwYWQwg63u7NGHt5yq80Oy MDDjoZiHOTRVaF0na/a0z4/7Kbn9+eOZ4jxNE= Original-Received: by 10.239.190.18 with SMTP id v18mr31709hbh.112.1267042522200; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:15:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:16:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:35294 Archived-At: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I think we need to revisit the setting for the default mailer: I think > neither the mailclient-send-it nor any other setting is a good default. > I think we should instead use as default a special function that prompts > the user whether he wants to use his external MUA to send email > (i.e. use mailclient-send-it), or to use /usr/sbin/sendmail, or to use > smtpmail in which case it'll ask the user to configure his SMTP server. > > And this should be used on *all* systems rather than only under w32 > and/or macosx, since sadly /usr/sbin/sendmail is too often unusable even > under GNU/Linux (my /usr/sbin/sendmail is usable, but I must admit that > it took me a significant amount of work on my laptop, so I can't expect > most people to go through that trouble). That sounds good and in line with what we previously did.