From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Q: prevent Emacs from sending mail with no subject
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:51:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FE88EB0.7020502@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 227a55e9.0312230844.1882eac0@posting.google.com
Eric Pement wrote:
> I would like to know how to prevent Emacs from sending email with no
> subject (or with a subject line that contains only whitespace). I've
> accidentally sent a couple of messages this way, and I think Emacs
> converted the subject line to "(unknown)" for me, but I'm not sure. At
> any rate, I want Emacs to not send the message if the subject line is
> empty, but to prompt me to enter the missing subject.
>
> I've already checked the FAQ, the Customization menu, "Learning GNU
> Emacs" and searched the Google archives for this issue, but I can't
> seem to find the answer. Any help would be appreciated.
Emacs is not changing your Subject header (I just checked the lisp/mail/*.el
files distributed with Emacs 21.3). It is probably your site's MTA -- are
you using sendmail.el or smtpmail.el, or something else?
In any case, you probably want to add the check for an empty Subject header
to mail-send-hook:
(defun mail-send-check-subject ()
(save-excursion
;; see mail-position-on-field:
(goto-char (point-min))
(let ((case-fold-search t))
(if (re-search-forward "^Subject:[ \t]*" (mail-header-end))
;; else signal an error
(if (eolp)
(insert (read-string "Subject: ")))))))
(add-hook 'mail-send-hook 'mail-send-check-subject)
--
Kevin Rodgers
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-23 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-23 16:44 Q: prevent Emacs from sending mail with no subject Eric Pement
2003-12-23 17:26 ` Kin Cho
2003-12-23 18:51 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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