From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: sendmail.el bug or expected behavior? Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:28:51 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <400EC4E3.80700@yahoo.com> References: <877jzn2lk8.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074709999 27986 80.91.224.253 (21 Jan 2004 18:33:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:33:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 21 19:33:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AjNA8-0005US-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:33:12 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AjNA8-0004Rf-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:33:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AjN94-0006aj-Tt for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:32:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AjN6S-0005BF-VK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:29:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AjN5s-0004os-VY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:29:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AjN5s-0004o6-CB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:28:48 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AjN5r-00078m-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:28:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AjN5q-00078e-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:28:46 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AjN5q-00074p-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:28:46 +0100 Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19407 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19407 Richard Stallman wrote: > When mail-interactive is nil, Emacs should not wait. I think the variable name is confusing. From the user's perspective, sending mail interactively should not force him/her to wait. So when mail-interactive is is non-nil, Emacs should not wait; but when it is nil, it should wait. I.e. reverse the semantics of mail-interactive, or change the name to something like sendmail-send-it-synchronously (since it only applies to sendmail-send-it, not smtpmail-send-it or anything else that might be used for send-mail-function). > Many years ago I found that waiting for sendmail to finish took so > long it was intolerable. Maybe that has changed; if so, we could > change the default value of mail-interactive to make Emacs wait > by default. > > What experiences do people have? It's a lot easier to configure smtpmail.el (in site-start.el) than sendmail itself (in sendmail.cf), and smtpmail-send-it seems fast to me. -- Kevin Rodgers