From: jpw@pobox.com (John Paul Wallington)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs and smtpmail
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 20:33:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejx5f7cq.fsf@thunk.shootybangbang.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.3604.1151763833.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:23:47 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> FWIW, I was tripped by this as well, back when I started using
> smtpmail. The documentation should be clearer on the type of the
> value, IMHO: it currently could be interpreted as if "25" is allowed,
> and will be magically converted to a number:
>
> The variable `smtpmail-smtp-service' controls the port on the
> server to contact. It is either a string, in which case it will be
> translated into an integer using system calls, or an integer.
Harry says that specifying a port number as a string worked under
XEmacs. Do you think it would be a good idea to handle strings
representing an integer in `make-network-process' ? Alternatively, we
could add such support as a special case to the smtpmail library
instead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-01 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-28 13:06 emacs and smtpmail harry meyers
2006-06-28 16:21 ` harry meyers
2006-06-28 17:22 ` harry meyers
2006-06-30 18:13 ` John Paul Wallington
2006-07-01 4:32 ` harry meyers
2006-07-01 12:51 ` John Paul Wallington
2006-07-01 13:17 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-01 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.3604.1151763833.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-07-01 19:33 ` John Paul Wallington [this message]
2006-07-01 21:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.3610.1151790441.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-07-02 13:35 ` harry meyers
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