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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Florian Beck <abstraktion@t-online.de>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:23:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bq2dz5lu.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8763smvv01.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> (Florian Beck's message of "Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:28:30 +0200")

Florian Beck <abstraktion@t-online.de> writes:

> Anyway, your patch does of course *not* help in the case that sendmail
> or postfix is halfway configured, ie. delivers mail locally (which means
> in practise the mail most likely is never seen). This is quite likely to
> happen because, as far as I remember, either anti spam software or some
> web server stuff required me to install postfix (but it didn't require
> that it worked properly).

I don't see how we could detect this case.

Maybe we could add a warning message to the instruction text of the
email buffer that report-emacs-bug creates, saying that this will
attempt to use `sendmail' or a similar smtp program to send the email,
and the user shouldn't use it if this isn't set up.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-07 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-30 12:59 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently Florian Beck
2008-05-30 13:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-30 21:42   ` Florian Beck
2008-05-30 21:52     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-31  0:44       ` Florian Beck
2008-05-31  9:18         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-31 10:56           ` Reiner Steib
2008-06-01  2:47           ` Florian Beck
2008-06-01  8:04             ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-31  9:53         ` Reiner Steib
2008-06-01  2:54           ` Florian Beck
2008-06-01  7:59             ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-02  0:38             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-02  2:13               ` Florian Beck
2008-06-02  2:24                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-05  5:27                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-05 11:53                   ` Florian Beck
2008-06-05 13:58                     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-05 14:28                       ` Florian Beck
2008-06-06  6:01                         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-06 19:04                           ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-07  1:24                             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-07  2:28                           ` Florian Beck
2008-06-07 14:23                             ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-06-07  7:50                           ` Reiner Steib
2008-06-13  4:15                           ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-06-13 14:17                             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-02  8:07               ` Paul R
2008-06-02 18:56                 ` Reiner Steib
2008-06-02 19:15                   ` Paul R
2008-06-03  8:26                     ` tomas
2008-06-05  5:15                       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-05 12:41                         ` tomas
2008-06-05 16:43                           ` Don Armstrong
2008-06-05 19:50                             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-01  5:36     ` Chong Yidong

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