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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:50:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd4mvacjz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080605164347.GZ10430@volo.donarmstrong.com> (Don Armstrong's message of "Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:43:47 -0700")

>> Actually no. As a counterexample, for my laptop, "the destination"
>> will never be "reachable" (smtp-wise). I have an smtp running on it
>> because my distro insists on it and I don't feel like fighting it.

> Almost all of the sane distributions configure their default MTA to
> send to some smarthost by default. [I know that's how exim, postfix,
> and nullmailer are configured in Debian.]

That requires user-interaction.  It may require updating, etc...
Unless actively uses `sendmail' to send his email, he'll completely
forget to update/fix/configure this, past the initial setup.
All popular MUAs encourage you to not use sendmail, AFAICT.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-05 19:50 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
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 [this message]
2008-06-01  5:36     ` Chong Yidong

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