From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:23:25 -0400 Message-ID: <87bq2dz5lu.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87fxs0hrrv.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> <4840084C.2020405@gmail.com> <87d4n3ii41.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> <48407716.5080704@gmail.com> <874p8fi9op.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> <87od6lc1bd.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> <87abi4r3ci.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> <87zlq0gkru.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> <87r6bcgdlm.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> <8763smvv01.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212848629 25003 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2008 14:23:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 14:23:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier To: Florian Beck Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 07 16:24:31 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K4zLD-000873-SS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:24:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38312 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4zKQ-0000HG-Qg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:23:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K4zKM-0000Gv-B7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:23:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K4zKK-0000Gb-Tb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:23:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36781 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4zKK-0000GY-QZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:23:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:50335) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K4zKK-0006tK-Jy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:23:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]:47939) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1K4zIR-0005no-NF for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:21:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K4zKH-0006sw-KV for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:23:27 -0400 Original-Received: from c-98-216-111-182.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.216.111.182]:10704 helo=furry) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K4zKH-0006sq-Bs for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:23:25 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3582EC055; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 10:23:25 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <8763smvv01.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> (Florian Beck's message of "Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:28:30 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:98584 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:22584 Archived-At: Florian Beck 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.