From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: RE: smtp crap Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:38:27 -0700 Message-ID: <4A91C1C6CE574F8E8DC0BF14879850E5@us.oracle.com> References: <8739f4kzp3.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87ipo0p1bc.fsf@stupidchicken.com><58C87CB9F44943A7BBE78F2D6B62A850@us.oracle.com><8762jwfjsj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318311534 16156 80.91.229.12 (11 Oct 2011 05:38:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:38:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Chong Yidong' , ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Stefan Monnier'" , "'Miles Bader'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 11 07:38:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RDV3A-0003om-HY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:38:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45641 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDV3A-0005CM-4F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:38:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDV33-0004sw-5x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:38:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDV32-0006Mm-Bz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:38:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:57245) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDV30-0006MQ-VO; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:38:39 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.4/Switch-3.4.4) with ESMTP id p9B5caTY026336 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:38:38 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9B5cZIY025234 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:38:36 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt107.oracle.com (abhmt107.oracle.com [141.146.116.59]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p9B5cULI027498; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:38:30 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.50.234) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:38:30 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcyH0yjY5UjWyTO/QJKUIKbN8zVnHwABD7ow X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6109 X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090205.4E93D65E.0079:SCFMA922111,ss=1,re=-4.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144870 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80287 Archived-At: > I say "the current prompt doesn't really offer mailclient". > It needs to be fixed to offer mailclient on all platforms. No - the problem is not just needing better questions with more possible responses. There should be _no_ such unsolicited prompting. Any dialog about email configuration should be only upon user request. And it certainly should not ensue automatically just because a user tries to send a bug report.