Re: Default of send-mail-function

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:50:49 +0100, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> said: 
> 
> 
>> Yes, that can currently happen with the default on Windows and Mac
>> too. But the fact that obviously experienced users who have set Emacs
>> as their default mail client end up with a loop if they don't change
>> the default configuration should not prevent us from making a change
>> that benefits less experienced users who currently experience a broken
>> mail configuration and may not have the knowledge to configure their
>> way out of it.
> 
>         I am not sure that this is th case, xdg-email is as likely to be
>  broken as anything else. Indeed, on Debian, when the sysadmin installs
>  a MTA, and sets it up correctly, _every_ user on the system has a
>  working email. If xdg-email defaults to thunderbird; then every user
>  has to set it up correctly, which they  might not have expertise to do.
> 
>         At my last install of a Debian system, I recall being asked how
>  to set up my MTA -- and local delivery was only one of five options.
> 
>         These decisions we are making do not come at no cost. Right now,
>  emacs works out of the box with no user setup for sending email on the
>  corporate debian boxes at my place of work; this change would mean
>  every single user will have to customize emacs on every single box at
>  work.
> 
>         I would find that degrades the quality of implementation for
>  emacs.  How are we so sure that I am in the minority here?

Don't now, but a little table might grow to help us:

* w32: system default mail most likely to work
* mac: system default mail most likely to work
* GNU/Linux
   - debian: manoj, please help me fill in this. Desktop? Other?
   - ubuntu: I guess system default mail, but other knows better than me