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: Changing the default for `send-mail-function' Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:44:28 +0100 Message-ID: <4E07B64C.8050407@harpegolden.net> References: <4E078D62.8040301@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309130062 4740 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2011 23:14:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:14:22 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 27 01:14:14 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QayWr-0006AP-Nx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:14:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54428 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QayWp-0006uJ-NI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:14:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43346) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qay49-0001hl-Sv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:44:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qay47-0005BV-TJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:44:33 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:41920) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qay47-0005BR-JN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:44:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.47.114] (87-198-47-114.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.47.114]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5A53868485 for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:44:30 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110606 Icedove/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 65.99.215.13 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:141023 Archived-At: On 26/06/11 22:57, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > David De La Harpe Golden writes: > >> What? Hold on there. On fd.o desktop systems, one uses "xdg-email" to >> use the user's preferred email composer to pop up a mail ready for >> sending. > > So you configure xdg-email to have the correct outgoing SMTP address? > ??? xdg-email is a command intended mostly for automated use that launches the user's preferred (in their desktop environment's settings) email client, such as thunderbird or evolution or kmail (or even emacs) with a message open and ready to be sent (possibly after further review and editing). As it opens the desktop user's preferred email client, it's most likely to be actually already configured with correct outgoing settings. http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-email.html http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/EmailConfig