From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: Florian Beck <abstraktion@t-online.de>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 11:53:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9wsla4x68.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874p8fi9op.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> (Florian Beck's message of "Sat, 31 May 2008 02:44:38 +0200")
On Sat, May 31 2008, Florian Beck wrote:
> 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.
> I installed Ubuntu and used gnus to talk to my pop server.
POP is only for fetching mail, not for sending.
> I didn't configure sendmail or a system mail client or
> `mail-user-agent' because everything worked – until after more then
> a year I realised that emacs bug reports were not delived, despite
> the message »Sending…done«.
Emacs (or Gnus) doesn't know that your Gnus configuration allows to
send mail, so it can't set `mail-user-agent' to `gnus-user-agent'.
Gnus (`message.el') tried harder than `sendmail.el' to figure out if
sendmail exists. See the function and the variable
`message-send-mail-function':
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun message-send-mail-function ()
"Return suitable value for the variable `message-send-mail-function'."
(cond ((and (require 'sendmail)
(boundp 'sendmail-program)
sendmail-program
(executable-find sendmail-program))
'message-send-mail-with-sendmail)
((and (locate-library "smtpmail")
(require 'smtpmail)
smtpmail-default-smtp-server)
'message-smtpmail-send-it)
((locate-library "mailclient")
'message-send-mail-with-mailclient)
(t
(lambda ()
(error "Don't know how to send mail. Please customize `message-send-mail-function'")))))
;; Useful to set in site-init.el
(defcustom message-send-mail-function (message-send-mail-function)
"Function to call to send the current buffer as mail.
The headers should be delimited by a line whose contents match the
variable `mail-header-separator'.
Valid values include `message-send-mail-with-sendmail'
`message-send-mail-with-mh', `message-send-mail-with-qmail',
`message-smtpmail-send-it', `smtpmail-send-it',
`feedmail-send-it' and `message-send-mail-with-mailclient'. The
default is system dependent and determined by the function
`message-send-mail-function'.
See also `send-mail-function'."
[...]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
`sendmail.el' just uses `sendmail-send-it' without any check if
/usr/sbin/sendmail (et al) even exist:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;; Useful to set in site-init.el
;;;###autoload
(defcustom send-mail-function
(if (and window-system (memq system-type '(darwin windows-nt)))
'mailclient-send-it
'sendmail-send-it)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Bye, Reiner.
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/94623
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/94336/focus=94623
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| From: Reiner Steib
| Subject: Default of send-mail-function (was: ...)
| To: Lennart Borgman
| Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
| Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:05:49 +0200
| Message-ID: <v9prt12x5e.fsf_-_@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-31 9:53 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 [this message]
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
2008-06-01 5:36 ` Chong Yidong
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