From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default of message-send-mail-function
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:31:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9bqa7gg5v.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwst4m746.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:07:20 -0400")
On Wed, Oct 31 2007, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Below is a patch (with an earlier version of the function
>> `message-send-mail-function'). I will look at the old messages
>> tomorrow. Unless there's a better suggestion, I'll install something
>> alone these lines.
>
> How 'bout initializing those vars to nil and then at the use-point
> fallback to a heuristic that first tries mailclient, then sendmail,
> then smtpmail (or some other order)?
There's also `message-send-mail-real-function' used in several files
(gnus-agent.el, gnus-soup.el, ...). Sounds like work.
But if you'd like to implement it, please go ahead. :-)
> Better yet: turn this var into a list of functions that are tried in turn.
> This would make it possible to deal with the problem of window-system which
> is not a constant any more.
IIRC `window-system' was dropped later in the thread.
Bye, Reiner.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-06 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-30 21:06 error from new Gnus Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-30 22:55 ` Default of message-send-mail-function (was: error from new Gnus / sendmail) Reiner Steib
2007-10-31 1:07 ` Default of message-send-mail-function Stefan Monnier
2007-11-06 22:31 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2007-11-20 21:00 ` Reiner Steib
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