From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41096: message-sendmail-f-is-evil has hard to understand docstring Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 13:37:55 -0400 Message-ID: <2ksgge470s.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="55070"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: 41096@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 05 19:39:14 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jW1XG-000EFc-6e for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 May 2020 19:39:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33498 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jW1XF-0005wu-8T for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 May 2020 13:39:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43828) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jW1X4-0005vs-7e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2020 13:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53984) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jW1X3-0008S8-MD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2020 13:39:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jW1X3-00065E-Jq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2020 13:39:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 17:39:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 41096 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 41096-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B41096.158870028523313 (code B ref 41096); Tue, 05 May 2020 17:39:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41096) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 May 2020 17:38:05 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37297 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jW1W9-00063w-1w for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2020 13:38:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40676) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jW1W6-00063R-8D for 41096@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2020 13:38:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59408) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jW1W1-0007Ep-0V; Tue, 05 May 2020 13:37:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jW1Vz-0007Qy-2Q; Tue, 05 May 2020 13:37:55 -0400 X-Spook: Echelon Homeland Defense red noise Organized crime Pine X-Ran: \oZ%)H6WK}DSd"sIvK^X1G@>R1&w~pHsMK/'<9:e+*fLH0BGSIH0^X{yRVPAoXv&X!o7_Q X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Tue, 5 May 2020 17:33:25 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:179749 Archived-At: The first sentence seems clear to me. If you are using sendmail to send mail, and don't want Emacs to pass the "-f" option to sendmail, set this non-nil. If you want to know what the -f option does, see man sendmail. If you aren't using sendmail to send mail, ignore it. (The evil part is a 20+ year old joke. Perhaps you want to rename it to a prosaic message-sendmail-specify-envelope-from.)