From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Florian Beck <abstraktion@t-online.de>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:38:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv63ss26am.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87od6lc1bd.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> (Florian Beck's message of "Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:54:14 +0200")
>>> Look, if you think my setup is bizzare, please ignore my report. But
>>> I don't think it is.
>> Me neither, see the sub-thread[1] about this in April on emacs-devel.
> Well, /usr/sbin/sendmail indeed *does* exist on my system, although the
> sendmail package is not installed. Confusing, isn't it?
Not necessarily: many packages (i.e. most MTAs) provide
/usr/sbin/sendmail. Could you try and figure out what that
`/usr/sbin/sendmail' is?
> Anyway, because the sendmail binary does exist,
> message-send-mail-function returns message-send-mail-with-sendmail.
> So that would not help.
We definitely have a problem in this respect. Traditionally on Unix,
sending mail is done via the /usr/sbin/sendmail program, but nowadays
it's very common to have such programs completely misconfigured.
It's fundamentally a bug in the distributions, I believe, but it's not
one that we can expect to see fixed any time soon, so we're going to
have to deal with it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-02 0:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-30 12:59 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently Florian Beck
2008-05-30 13:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-30 21:42 ` Florian Beck
2008-05-30 21:52 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-31 0:44 ` Florian Beck
2008-05-31 9:18 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-31 10:56 ` Reiner Steib
2008-06-01 2:47 ` Florian Beck
2008-06-01 8:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-31 9:53 ` Reiner Steib
2008-06-01 2:54 ` Florian Beck
2008-06-01 7:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-02 0:38 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-06-02 2:13 ` Florian Beck
2008-06-02 2:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-05 5:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-05 11:53 ` Florian Beck
2008-06-05 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-05 14:28 ` Florian Beck
2008-06-06 6:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-06 19:04 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-07 1:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-07 2:28 ` Florian Beck
2008-06-07 14:23 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-07 7:50 ` Reiner Steib
2008-06-13 4:15 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-06-13 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-02 8:07 ` Paul R
2008-06-02 18:56 ` Reiner Steib
2008-06-02 19:15 ` Paul R
2008-06-03 8:26 ` tomas
2008-06-05 5:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-05 12:41 ` tomas
2008-06-05 16:43 ` Don Armstrong
2008-06-05 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-01 5:36 ` Chong Yidong
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