From: Toby Allsopp <toby@mi6.gen.nz>
Subject: sendmail-program default is determined at compilation time
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:51:06 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zmdjdoj9.fsf@candyboy.here> (raw)
It seems that the default for sendmail-program is determined at
(Emacs) compilation time, which means that if the situation is
different at run time (e.g. if Emacs was compiled on a different
machine, as is the case for binary packages for e.g. Debian) the
default could be inappropriate.
sendmail-program is defined in paths.el as:
(defcustom sendmail-program
(cond
((file-exists-p "/usr/sbin/sendmail") "/usr/sbin/sendmail")
((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/sendmail") "/usr/lib/sendmail")
((file-exists-p "/usr/ucblib/sendmail") "/usr/ucblib/sendmail")
(t "fakemail")) ;In ../etc, to interface to /bin/mail.
"Program used to send messages."
:group 'mail
:type 'file)
My problem is that the default for the Debian emacs-snapshot package
version 20060824-1 is "fakemail" because the machine that builds it
doesn't have sendmail installed. I, however, do have
/usr/sbin/sendmail, but that isn't taken into account.
Is this the expected behaviour?
Toby.
next reply other threads:[~2006-09-02 1:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-02 1:51 Toby Allsopp [this message]
2006-09-02 18:09 ` sendmail-program default is determined at compilation time Richard Stallman
2006-09-02 22:45 ` Chong Yidong
2006-09-04 9:50 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-04 14:19 ` Chong Yidong
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