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: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:36:19 -0400 Message-ID: <87k5h9n2cs.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87fxs0hrrv.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> <4840084C.2020405@gmail.com> <87d4n3ii41.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212298601 29455 80.91.229.12 (1 Jun 2008 05:36:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 05:36:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Florian Beck Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 01 07:37:23 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 1K2gFu-0003JL-Lz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:37:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42120 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2gF8-0006ft-8Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:36:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2gF1-0006fY-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:36:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2gEz-0006f8-Hl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42320 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2gEz-0006et-Cw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:47733) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K2gEz-0000jo-5O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]:33722 helo=mx10.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1K2gDE-0000FF-9L for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:34:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K2gEv-0000jB-FV for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from c-98-216-111-182.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.216.111.182]:11446 helo=furry) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K2gEv-0000it-90; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:36:21 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D8C7CC04D; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 01:36:20 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87d4n3ii41.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> (Florian Beck's message of "Fri, 30 May 2008 23:42:38 +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:98167 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:22515 Archived-At: Florian Beck writes: >>> If I send a bug with=20 >>> >>> emacs -Q >>> M-x report-emacs-bug >>> >>> emacs trys to use sendmail-user-agent by default. >>> >>> This doesn't work, which is no surprise because I haven't even installed >>> sendmail. >>> >>> What *is* a problem is that there is no indication that sending the >>> message failed. Emacs even displays Sending=E2=80=A6done. > > No, this happens on Ubuntu and probably on many gnu-linux-systems that > do not install sendmail by default. I'm sorry, I forgot the system inform= ation. > (see below) > > Also, I'm not looking for a workaround. (After I set mail-user-agent to > gnus-user-agent everything is fine.) I'm reporting that on systems > without sendmail bug reports likely disappear without trace. This is indeed a problem. Would anyone like to work on fixing it?