From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix MH-E mail composition with GNU Mailutils Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 19:38:24 +0300 Message-ID: <83h8lfnegv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <24605.1530392126@alto> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1530722196 20632 195.159.176.226 (4 Jul 2018 16:36:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 16:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mike Kupfer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 04 18:36:32 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1faklb-0005GJ-CI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2018 18:36:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48214 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fakni-00029a-Ml for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:38:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45574) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faknW-00025k-LS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:38:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faknT-0002gt-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:38:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41240) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faknT-0002gp-1e; Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:38:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4420 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1faknS-0005Y4-Ez; Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:38:26 -0400 In-reply-to: <24605.1530392126@alto> (message from Mike Kupfer on Sat, 30 Jun 2018 13:55:26 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226941 Archived-At: > From: Mike Kupfer > cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 13:55:26 -0700 > > > Please at least explain the reason(s) for the problem. How else can > > we reason about the necessity and risk(s) of getting this into > > emacs-26. > > The problem comes about because of the way MH-E deals with some versions > of nmh, which use a non-simple-text templating mechanism for mail > composition, and which do not provide a convenient interface for MH-E > mail composition. MH-E creates the draft email in a temporary folder > and then removes the temporary folder, as part of setting up the > composition buffer. Right now MH-E knows about the metadata file that > nmh creates during the creation of the draft email, but Mailutils-MH has > at least one other metadata file. So when MH-E tries to delete the > temporary folder, the deletion errors out, which aborts the rest of the > composition steps. > > > And shouldn't we invite the MH-E developers to this discussion? > > I posted this patch on June 7 on the MH-E developers list; see > https://sourceforge.net/p/mh-e/mailman/mh-e-devel/?viewmonth=201806 for > what little discussion there was. OK, I'm sold. Thanks.