From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix MH-E mail composition with GNU Mailutils Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 22:21:07 +0300 Message-ID: <83vaa0krmk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <18700.1530385240@alto> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1530386360 24972 195.159.176.226 (30 Jun 2018 19:19:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 19:19:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mike Kupfer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 30 21:19:16 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fZLOt-0006Nt-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2018 21:19:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fZLR1-0004zu-5B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2018 15:21:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46860) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fZLQm-0004yB-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2018 15:21:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fZLQh-0003va-IN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2018 15:21:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34635) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fZLQh-0003vU-EJ; Sat, 30 Jun 2018 15:21:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1856 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fZLQf-0005Zf-Dt; Sat, 30 Jun 2018 15:21:07 -0400 In-reply-to: <18700.1530385240@alto> (message from Mike Kupfer on Sat, 30 Jun 2018 12:00:40 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226851 Archived-At: > From: Mike Kupfer > Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 12:00:40 -0700 > > Currently, trying to compose a message using MH-E with Mailutils fails: > no composition buffer is created, and the user gets an obscure error > message about deleting a non-empty directory. This has been broken for > awhile (i.e., it's not a regression in 26.1), but the fix is pretty > simple. Is this okay for emacs-26? Please at least explain the reason(s) for the problem. How else can we reason about the necessity and risk(s) of getting this into emacs-26. And shouldn't we invite the MH-E developers to this discussion? Thanks.