From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function' Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 20:36:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4E1B16B3.1070209@cornell.edu> <4E386CFC.8030304@cornell.edu> <4E3AB9C6.5090001@cornell.edu> <4E3B15B0.5030107@cornell.edu> <4E3D890C.50301@cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312655843 11259 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2011 18:37:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 18:37:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Stefan Monnier , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Ken Brown Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 06 20:37:13 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 1QplkH-0005fT-Ff for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2011 20:37:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48539 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QplkG-0007oH-OR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:37:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34280) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QplkD-0007o1-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:37:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QplkC-00007H-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:37:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:43198) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QplkC-00006r-N4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:37:08 -0400 Original-Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so2115680ewy.0 for ; Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:37:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wOmDodoNcYXIdi6tBbekrrq78UJOHDxamQb+l866g3I=; b=MDcq970puj3AOV0fvDcBfmTY35/Ee6Ox7n9WbELkgA9uJsjfxGv8SK4tVpF+GQf6Vh 5U/0/mq5SMIfdv7TdLDB+vlnimWklnBygi5lHLxN/ocqg9FHpTnnr+jJV3URZdEuSAp0 TgASc8B07nt4DLOBMhv5zIVbdoj4nlQtovG14= Original-Received: by 10.213.8.205 with SMTP id i13mr1159860ebi.87.1312655827149; Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:37:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.213.35.65 with HTTP; Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:36:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E3D890C.50301@cornell.edu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.215.41 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:142940 Archived-At: On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 20:33, Ken Brown wrote: > On 8/6/2011 1:27 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> >>> Do you want to use the built-in SMTP, the system mailer or a different >>> user mailer? =C2=A0(b, s, d) >> >> That would be perfect, although getting a single-line prompt that's >> understandable by random users is a challenge. > > I would go one step further and actually offer mailclient as the default, > with an option to choose something different if desired. =C2=A0After all,= we're > targeting users who are trying to use emacs to send mail but have not > configured it. =C2=A0I would guess that the most common case for this is = sending > a bug report. =C2=A0Mailclient has the advantage that it should just work= OOTB > for most people, without any configuration. > > But it's not clear what's the best way to refer to mailclient in the prom= pt. > =C2=A0How about "your default mailer", perhaps with some help text that e= xplains > that it is the same mailer the user would get by clicking on an email lin= k > in their web browser? I agree.