* Bug/sloppy coding in smtpmail.el
@ 2008-01-02 4:54 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
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From: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky @ 2008-01-02 4:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bug-gnu-emacs
smtpmail.el uses defvar to define one user variable
(smtpmail-queue-index) in terms of two other user-defined variable
(smtpmail-queue-dir and smtpmail-queue-index-file).
Particularly, given the naming convention, most users would
rationally think that defining the directory (named logically as
smtpmail-queue-dir) and the index file (named logically
smtpmail-queue-index-file) would be sufficient.
However, this is not true, one would also need to independently set
smtpmail-queue-index which is not even named very specifically and is
highly non-obvious.
I had to go through the elisp source code to figure out why
smtpmail kept crashing with the following error even though it seemed
that I had defined everything properly:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Opening input file" "no such file or directory" "/home/myhome/Mail/queued-mail/index")
Basically, 3 defvars are being uses to specify only 2 independent bits
of information -- the base directory and EITHER the relative path to
the index within it (smtpmail-queue-index-file) OR the absolute path
to the index file (smtpmail-queue-index).
A *BETTER* way would be to just pick 2 out of the 3 as independent
variables.
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