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On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 at 20:14, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>   > I also understand that Emacs could use a system facility for sending
>   > email if there was one; but I know I haven=E2=80=99t configured an MT=
A
>   > locally, don=E2=80=99t want to, and ain=E2=80=99t going to. So I assu=
me Emacs is not
>   > going to be able to delegate sending the email to any other program.
>
> Let's see if this problem is real or apparent.
> Would you please try report-emacs-bug and see what happens?
> Does it actually send the email?

$ emacs -Q
M-x report-emacs-bug

Observed behavior:

0. A prompt appears in the minibuffer: =E2=80=9CBug Subject:=E2=80=9D. I en=
ter =E2=80=9Ctest=E2=80=9D.

1. Two windows appear. The one above looks like an email message
composition window, with a bogus From email address ending in
.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me. The one below
explains:

    While in the mail buffer:

      Type C-c C-c to send the bug report.
      Type C-x k RET to cancel (don=E2=80=99t send it).
      Type C-c M-i to copy text to your preferred mail program.

      Type C-c TAB to visit in Info the Emacs Manual section
        about when and how to write a bug report, and what
        information you should include to help fix the bug.

If I press C-c M-i at this point, I get to step 4 below.

If I adjust my email address in the From line, compose a message text,
and press C-c C-c:

2. A prompt appears in the minibuffer, asking me =E2=80=9CSend this bug rep=
ort
to the Emacs maintainers? (yes or no). I enter =E2=80=9Cyes=E2=80=9D RET.

3. An *Emacs Mail Setup Help* buffer explains that Emacs is not
configured to send mail, and offers three choices: =E2=80=98mail client=E2=
=80=99
(default), =E2=80=98transport=E2=80=99, and =E2=80=98smtp=E2=80=99. I press=
 RET to choose the default
method.

4. Because I normally use Gmail via its web interface, my mail client
is _also_ unconfigured. So a Thunderbird account setup wizard appears,
asking me for an email address, SMTP server, and user name. I provide
all that and click =E2=80=9CFinish=E2=80=9D.

5. A Thunderbird message composer window appears, with the copy of the
bug text in the body, addressed to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. At this
point I=E2=80=99m fairly confident that if I were to hit =E2=80=9CSend=E2=
=80=9D it would
actually go off.


So yes, it works, if the user is reasonably serious about reporting the bug=
.

To boost the user=E2=80=99s confidence in being able to send a bug report, =
it
might make sense to detect that Emacs is not configured to send mail
earlier, and, at step 1, add a clause to the help message:

-      Type C-c C-c to send the bug report.
+      Type C-c C-c to send the bug report.  You will be asked
+        to enter your mail server settings.