From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function' Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:32:25 +0200 Message-ID: <87d3i0bzg6.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309087995 17743 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2011 11:33:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:33:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 26 13:33:05 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 1QanaJ-0005kf-CQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:33:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58640 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QanaI-00017B-9G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:33:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44879) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QanZw-00016b-PW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:32:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QanZu-00061K-NL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:32:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]:41415) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QanZu-00061E-1t; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:32:38 -0400 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.175]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p5QBWSbd019622; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:32:28 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7112810B81; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:32:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Face: :6KQZ[nyoS_edmB.%gw-=)BYth^|2+Y+^cu%I$FSx!&>-'om>3H7A|M&n(V7fIo3P.; yo.b yq4$p; ZaBtkv)\}biaiBQe"mD}iib1AA@99-fZ7i*bLhNRVC&0Wkxg9)SH?oWc@{ Mail-Followup-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:56:03 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-dcc1.aftenposten.no-Metrics: poseidon 1215; Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 134.60.1.11 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:140983 Archived-At: On Sun, Jun 26 2011, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> If the SMTP server address is to be supplied by the user, then >> send-mail-function should remain set to mailclient-send-it on >> MS-Windows. > > The server address is supplied by the user, just like it is on all other > mail clients (Mail.app, Thunderbird, Outlook, etc). It would be great if Emacs (and Gnus) could do like Thunderbird 3. Thunderbird uses a list of email provider configuration information (Mozilla ISP database[1]) as well as well known hosts (and MX records from DNS?). E.g. for provider.tld it checks imap.provider.tld, smtp.provider.tld, mail.provider.tld ... [1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_accounts_in_Thunderbird_for_popular_email_providers#ISP_Database http://ispdb.mozillamessaging.com/ http://ispdb.mozillamessaging.com/list > smtpmail.el will query the user for the SMTP server if it isn't set > already. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/