[PATCH] Make feedmail usable for Cygwin

[Edi Weitz <spamtrap@agharta.de>]

In the current version of feedmail you can't use its binmail template
facility with Cygwin's bash because "/bin/sh" is hard-coded. This tiny
patch changes that.

Cheers,
Edi.


2004-10-08  Edi Weitz  <edi@agharta.de>

	* mail/feedmail.el (feedmail-binmail-template)
	(feedmail-buffer-to-binmail): Make usable for Cygwin

--- feedmail.el~        2004-10-08 22:41:10.022078400 +0200
+++ feedmail.el 2004-10-08 22:43:26.958984000 +0200
@@ -1302,17 +1302,18 @@
 
 
 (defcustom feedmail-binmail-template (if mail-interactive "/bin/mail %s" "/bin/rmail %s")
-  "*Command template for the subprocess which will get rid of the mail.
-It can result in any command understandable by /bin/sh.  Might not
-work at all in non-Unix environments.  The single '%s', if present,
-gets replaced by the space-separated, simplified list of addressees.
-Used in feedmail-buffer-to-binmail to form the shell command which
-will receive the contents of the prepped buffer as stdin.  If you'd
-like your errors to come back as mail instead of immediately in a
-buffer, try /bin/rmail instead of /bin/mail (this can be accomplished
-by keeping the default nil setting of `mail-interactive').  You might
-also like to consult local mail experts for any other interesting
-command line possibilities."
+  "*Command template for the subprocess which will get rid of the
+mail.  It can result in any command understandable by the shell named
+by `shell-file-name'.  Might not work at all in non-Unix
+environments. \(Note that on Cygwin you can use the value \"sh\".) The
+single '%s', if present, gets replaced by the space-separated,
+simplified list of addressees.  Used in feedmail-buffer-to-binmail to
+form the shell command which will receive the contents of the prepped
+buffer as stdin.  If you'd like your errors to come back as mail
+instead of immediately in a buffer, try /bin/rmail instead of
+/bin/mail (this can be accomplished by keeping the default nil setting
+of `mail-interactive').  You might also like to consult local mail
+experts for any other interesting command line possibilities."
   :group 'feedmail-misc
   :type 'string
   )
@@ -1328,7 +1329,8 @@
   (set-buffer prepped)
   (apply
    'call-process-region
-   (append (list (point-min) (point-max) "/bin/sh" nil errors-to nil "-c"
+   (append (list (point-min) (point-max) shell-file-name
+                 nil errors-to nil shell-command-switch
                 (format feedmail-binmail-template
                         (mapconcat 'identity addr-listoid " "))))))

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