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: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:10:08 +0100 Message-ID: <4E07CA60.5000607@harpegolden.net> References: 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 1309133444 18763 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2011 00:10:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:10:44 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 27 02:10:40 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 1QazPR-0005tI-Iw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:10:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45783 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QazPQ-0008Nc-59 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:10:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35825) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QazP3-0008Mi-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:10:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QazP1-0001r7-Eg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:10:12 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:44455) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QazP1-0001r1-1f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:10:11 -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 38D2368485 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:10:10 +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:141034 Archived-At: On 26/06/11 14:08, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > What about if we default to `query-user', and then the first time you > use it, it'll ask "Use the built-in SMTP support, or use {the Windows > mailer,exim} to send the mail?", and then save the response. > Note my point elsemail is essenially that similar can apply to x11 desktop envs - i.e. the choice is between (i) the desktop preferred mail client (implementable via the xdg-email command line command that exists to indirect to the user's preferred MUA i.e. thunderbird, kmail, etc), quite likely to be configured to send somewhere sensible (this is highly similar to the point Eli just made about how "At least on Windows, the system mailer (Outlook or whatever) is normally already configured,") (ii) the local system's mail daemon (via the standard sendmail-compatible command line interface, as provided by exim, postfix, true sendmail, etc.), unfortunately nowadays often set up for local-only delivery if that. (iii) builtin smtp.