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: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:45:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vpu6hqf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3sjo4i7i9.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:20:46 +0200")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> The difference is that we're forcing the users to a single value now
> that we can't ever change again. So if, for instance, the Linux
> people pull themselves together and create a proper API for querying
> how mail is supposed to be sent out, this is something that few Emacs
> users will be using, since if we change the default in Emacs 26.1 to
> `send-mail-using-the-clever-new-linux-api', they'll never see it.
Users who have customized send-mail-function independently, prior to
Emacs 24, would encounter the same problem. In the event, it woud be
more reliable to hard code a check into the mail-sending functions,
similar to what we did in compose-mail when switching from mail-mode to
message-mode as the default mail user agent.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-11 18:45 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
2011-09-10 18:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11 18:40 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-11 18:45 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
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