Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently

[Florian Beck <abstraktion@t-online.de>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> It is from the postfix package, but obviously not configured:
>
>> fb@aeschylus:~$ sendmail
>> sendmail: fatal: open /etc/postfix/main.cf: No such file or directory
>> fb@aeschylus:~$ echo $?
>> 75
>
> That's odd.  From what you said earlier, it seems you're using the
> sendmail.el code to send the message.  And that code does (around line
> 1167):
> 		     (exit-value (apply 'call-process-region args)))
> 		(or (null exit-value) (eq 0 exit-value)
> 		    (error "Sending...failed with exit value %d" exit-value)))
>
> so it should catch a non-0 exit status and signal an error for it.
>
> Could you try and investigate, to see whether you're indeed running this
> code and why it doesn't get an exit-value of 75?

Yes, this code is run. As far as I can see the following happens:

* append((1 72 "/usr/sbin/sendmail" nil 0 nil "-oi") nil nil ("-oem" "-odb") ("-t") nil)

And then:

Debugger entered--returning value: nil
  call-process-region(1 72 "/usr/sbin/sendmail" "/tmp/emacsY9owP5" 0 nil "-oi" "-oem" "-odb" "-t")
* apply(call-process-region (1 72 "/usr/sbin/sendmail" nil 0 nil "-oi" "-oem" "-odb" "-t"))
* byte-code [snipped]
* sendmail-send-it()
  mail-send()
  mail-send-and-exit(nil)
  call-interactively(mail-send-and-exit nil nil)

However,

> (or (null exit-value) (eq 0 exit-value)
> 		    (error "Sending...failed with exit value %d" exit-value)))

is never run, because it belongs to the else branch of the enclosing if statement.

-- 
Florian Beck