From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function' Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:40:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4E079767.30601@harpegolden.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309521469 17617 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2011 11:57:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 11:57:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: chad Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 01 13:57:41 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 1QccLs-0001Gp-Vk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:57:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43890 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QccLr-0004Yy-Rb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:57:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43564) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qcc57-0000Qx-1E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:40:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qcc55-0007aR-2H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:41028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qcc54-0007aN-Q6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qcc52-0006lq-Oa; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:40:17 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from chad on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:50:41 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:141352 Archived-At: > Why doesn't it deliver a bounce message? How would it do that? It doesn't know about the user's (actual) external mail service, and the local system isn't configured to accept mail. Someone else said that the default is that Exim is configured to deliver mail locally, but that's all. If so, remote mail would deliver a bounce message locally. If Exim can't even deliver local mail, then why doesn't sendmail fail and inform Emacs of this? Back when I had reason to look at such systems regularly, it was not unusual to find hundreds of such bounces in root's mbox. Apparently it could deliver bounces locally. I think that means the problem you are talking about did NOT occur, and my solution would work. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/