From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Reitter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fixing report-emacs-bug Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 11:07:48 +0100 Message-ID: References: <66D10997-3675-4D74-9DD3-340D2DD69871@gmail.com> <3DAFCD49-E4A8-45EF-AFAB-81096D3FD29B@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120472661 3015 80.91.229.2 (4 Jul 2005 10:24:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:24:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 04 12:24:20 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpO7X-0005Xn-Gk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 12:24:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpO8j-0004B4-Vd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 06:25:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DpNtm-0000Ff-CU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 06:09:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DpNtg-0000DS-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 06:09:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpNtf-0000CH-TH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 06:09:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.204] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DpNxU-0005a5-Im for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 06:13:48 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i32so722616wra for ; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 03:07:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=T9B+cuefwCX54FzV1eHQKCtukcJm7xEcd08ZxyedHpm5m/5dFUZGPNzYWqWH5mFWqOO9WodOFfewg54ErNoDW6meWU399fn43vdQz5BSZ35Q3WkG2Nxct+e4+z3XZHW/ffZ/9rFyL6ZbHVsUJ1qildOXpZjc9BApJ+nahLx0Jfg= Original-Received: by 10.54.31.64 with SMTP id e64mr3612959wre; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 03:07:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ?129.215.174.81? ([129.215.174.81]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 27sm6094256wrl.2005.07.04.03.07.50; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 03:07:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) 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:40323 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40323 On 4 Jul 2005, at 07:16, Richard M. Stallman wrote: > > But I think what we could do is have sendmail.el issue a > 'sendmail - > q' command, which flushes the mail queue if the mail system is > running. If not, you get this: > > That would work too. > > However, I am wondering if there is some confusion. > If Postfix is running, why doesn't sendmail.el send out > mail thru Postfix? OS X comes with Postfix installed, but not configured. Postfix is not running by default (security considerations). That means that sendmail is installed and accepts messages, but puts them in a queue. Because Postfix is not running, they never get sent off, and no bounce is generated either.