From: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: send-mail-function / mailclient
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:48:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <166979D5-3F91-4EA7-9470-6D6FDC63B15C@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50901201225x7ac109d9jd39c5e98ba3fa1d3@mail.gmail.com>
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On 20 Jan 2009, at 15:25, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> When this was discussed some time ago a workaround was implemented for
> w32. I think this can be used on most platforms.
>
> With this workaround you can edit the data in both Emacs and the mail
> client. When you finish editing the mail message in Emacs the users
> mail client is started to edit a new mail message. This message has
> the subject from Emacs, but the body just says
That is a clean, working solution. Any application that sends e-mail
will have the problem of making users configure mail servers. Thus, I
would find it acceptable to use mailclient as default. It would be
important to point people to `send-mail-function' when they configure
the mail servers (i.e. in the appropriate doc strings at least). It
is clear that mailclient makes no sense once somebody uses Emacs for
mail...
Similarly, M-x report-emacs-bug wasn't conceived for such an
arrangement:
>> - Buffers are edited twice - once in Emacs, and then again in the
>> mail
>> client. The mailto:// protocol wasn't designed to handle full
>> messages to
>> be sent off without editing. We're abusing the protocol.
Finally:
> - What happens if Emacs is used as mailto:// handler? At least on my
> system, we don't provide the function directly, but in principle,
> users
> should be able to do this. If GNU/Linux has some kind of accepted
> standard
> to announce "I can handle xxx:// URLs", then perhaps we should
> implement it
> (for all systems).
Perhaps GNU/Linux doesn't offer a central way to advertise URL
protocol handlers, but other systems do. We need a way to set this in
Emacs 23.2.
However, there seems to be a consensus that mailclient would be the
right default on all systems now. Is this agreed?
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-27 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-18 20:14 send-mail-function / mailclient David Reitter
2009-01-20 4:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-20 20:06 ` David Reitter
2009-01-20 20:25 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-01-27 13:48 ` David Reitter [this message]
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