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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix MH-E mail composition with GNU Mailutils
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 22:21:07 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vaa0krmk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18700.1530385240@alto> (message from Mike Kupfer on Sat, 30 Jun 2018 12:00:40 -0700)

> From: Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu>
> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 12:00:40 -0700
> 
> Currently, trying to compose a message using MH-E with Mailutils fails:
> no composition buffer is created, and the user gets an obscure error
> message about deleting a non-empty directory.  This has been broken for
> awhile (i.e., it's not a regression in 26.1), but the fix is pretty
> simple.  Is this okay for emacs-26?

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.

And shouldn't we invite the MH-E developers to this discussion?

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-30 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-30 19:00 [PATCH] Fix MH-E mail composition with GNU Mailutils Mike Kupfer
2018-06-30 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-06-30 20:55   ` Mike Kupfer
2018-07-04 16:38     ` Eli Zaretskii

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