From: "Rainer Gemulla" <rgemulla@gmx.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 27 may send invalid email messages without signaling an error
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 15:43:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <em4ccd4bee-f28a-4316-84a0-d56ef3b0a8ba@gemma> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h7zbgodb.fsf@gnu.org>
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> > I had sent a bug report
> > (http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=38654) about a bug in
> > messaging in the Emacs 27 branch to the bug tracker over a months ago,
> > but haven't heard back.
> >
> > It's a severe bug: Emacs may send invalid (i.e., unreadable) email
> > messages to the recipient without the sender noticing. The bug is still
> > present as of today, and this makes Emacs 27 unusable for me.
> >
> > I tried to look into the bug myself, but got stuck somewhere deep in
> > Emacs internals. Do you have any suggestions for how to proceed or help
> > fixing this bug?
>
> Try describing the bug as part of a frequent/important use case. The
> description you posted is so convoluted and full of invoking special
> functions that it's hard to realize why it is a severe bug that needs
> to be fixed ASAP. That other users didn't report anything like that,
> and no one chimed in to say "me too", the impression of the bug being
> specific to your setup or usage patterns is reinforced.
Thank you, Eli! I've closed and reposted the bug accordingly. I may well be that
many/most other people do not care (e.g., don't use Emacs for email or don't sign emails).
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=39884
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-26 21:32 Emacs 27 may send invalid email messages without signaling an error Rainer Gemulla
2020-02-28 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-03 15:43 ` Rainer Gemulla [this message]
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