From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default of send-mail-function Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:50:29 +0100 Message-ID: <47FAC155.8090002@harpegolden.net> References: <87tzig16o6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87od8ng92x.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87y77recuj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87prt2droq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fxtxeakj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <47FA8145.3010906@gmail.com> <47FA917E.5060100@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207615848 18503 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2008 00:50:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 00:50:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 08 02:51:19 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jj23T-0004oC-F0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:51:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jj22q-0002K6-5M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jj22m-0002Ha-2n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:50:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jj22j-0002Dj-Po for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:50:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jj22j-0002Db-Lc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:50:33 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jj22j-0004jf-7d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:50:33 -0400 Original-Received: from golden1.harpegolden.net (86-43-174-84.b-ras2.prp.dublin.eircom.net [86.43.174.84]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 2" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2001785F1; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 00:50:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080110) In-Reply-To: <47FA917E.5060100@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:94654 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > Reiner Steib wrote: >> [ Shifting this to emacs-devel ] >> >> On Mon, Apr 07 2008, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: >> >>> Just a question since I do not understand: >>> >>> I told earlier that on w32 this works because the bug reporter falls >>> back to using the system mail program (as an example this in my case >>> Thunderbird). Why can't this be done on other systems as well today? >> >> On GNU/Linux, send-mail-function typically defaults to >> send-mail-function. [1] I.e. the mail is feed to /usr/sbin/sendmail. >> /usr/sbin/sendmail typically exist on every GNU/Linux systems, however >> on today's end-user desktops, it's quite likely that it has not have >> been configured correctly. >> > Is there not something similar on GNU/Linux? On vaguely recent desktops following freedesktop.org , "xdg-email" should be a command that will open and populate a new mail in the user's "preferred email composer". xdg-email --subject foo --body bar address@example.com Emacs presumably could/should try to use that on gnu/linux... http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/XdgUtils http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/EmailConfig