From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function' Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:49:31 -0400 Message-ID: <871uy64v5w.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <4E079767.30601@harpegolden.net> <87vcvmtc7z.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309747807 18971 80.91.229.12 (4 Jul 2011 02:50:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 02:50:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , ich@frank-schmitt.net To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 04 04:50:03 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 1QdZEY-0006nh-VU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 04:50:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57061 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdZEY-0000Ld-3X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49662) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdZED-0000Kr-8N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:49:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdZEB-0001Uu-UM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:49:40 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.144]:53100) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdZE9-0001Ub-M5; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:49:37 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036225047.central.yale.edu [128.36.225.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p642nWEf032059 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sun, 3 Jul 2011 22:49:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:07:57 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.144 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.144 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:141514 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > But there's a delay between the time sendmail terminates and the bounce > shows up (if it does) in some local mailbox. > > Allowing 5 minutes should be enough. There's no guarantee that Emacs will still be running in 5 minutes. I agree with Stefan: there's no way to make this work reliably.