From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function' Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:56:50 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87iprrclod.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <4E079767.30601@harpegolden.net> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309192187 10022 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2011 16:29:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:29:47 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 27 18:29:43 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 1QbEgx-0008JW-8o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:29:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36352 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QbEgv-00064V-Iq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:29:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33354) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QbEEP-0006au-7p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:00:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QbEEK-0003Ld-6M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:00:12 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43854) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QbEEJ-0003L4-JS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:00:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QbEEH-0001Pb-Dh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:00:05 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.133 ([38.98.147.133]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:00:05 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.133 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:00:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.133 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ne5bKxMtyc74FuhmRMf7Xxoev40= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:141074 Archived-At: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:07:22 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> I think the easiest way to handle the second case is to have a LMI> submission server on the gnu.org machines. The easiest way to do that LMI> would be to just open up the gnu.org MTA on port 587, and point a CNAME LMI> to it, like bug-submission.gnu.org, and have `M-x report-emacs-bug' try LMI> that first. (The MTA can, for instance, accept email to LMI> bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org only.) LMI> It'll work in most (almost all?) cases, and we can try to fall back on LMI> mailclient/etc if it doesn't (if, for instance, the gnu.org MTA is down, LMI> or no longer exists in the future). LMI> This requires the support of the gnu.org mail admins, of course. :-) I think a web server submission is the right way to solve this problem. An e-mail bug submission does not work for everyone as we've discussed. It's still a good submission channel, but doesn't have to be the only one. Emacs, through url.el, can submit the form and perform some trivial work to assure the server it's not spam. It could use hashcash, for instance. Ted