From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105648: Make sendmail-query-once update send-mail-function directly.
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:51:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877h5nniu9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3mxels46f.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:32:08 +0200")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> Make sendmail-query-once update send-mail-function directly.
>
> The reason for using the second variable was, as previously discussed
> and agreed-to on the mailing list, that after using the new
> sendmail.el, all Emacs users will have `sendmail-send-function' set.
> This makes it impossible to change the default at a later date, if we
> find out that we should default to something else sometime in the
> future. (Which is not unlikely -- mail delivery methods change.)
One problem with sendmail-query-once-function is that it's not a
defcustom, so it's inappropriate to save it via customize-save-variable.
Making it a defcustom is not a good solution either. The problem of
forward compatibility doesn't seem serious enough to justify yet another
layer on top of send-mail-function.
If, in the future, we come up with another method to deliver mail, the
fact that some users have set send-mail-function via sendmail-query-once
should not bother us any more than those who've customized it directly.
So it is better to just do the straightforward thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-05 14:51 UTC|newest]
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2011-09-03 21:32 ` /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105648: Make sendmail-query-once update send-mail-function directly Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-05 14:51 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-09-10 18:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11 18:40 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-11 18:45 ` Chong Yidong
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