From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function' Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:05:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4E079767.30601@harpegolden.net> <87vcvmtc7z.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de> <87liwgg3vv.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87y60elo83.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87wrfw4xh5.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309900551 23853 80.91.229.12 (5 Jul 2011 21:15:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 21:15:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Antoine Levitt Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 05 23:15:43 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 1QeCy6-0004nZ-R5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:15:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36299 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeCy5-0007ap-MY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:15:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42856) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeCoa-0004l8-BZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:05:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeCoY-0004AX-QG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:05:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38300) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeCoY-0004AS-G5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:05:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeCoX-00034s-UT; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:05:49 -0400 In-reply-to: <87wrfw4xh5.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Antoine Levitt on Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:24:06 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:141612 Archived-At: Anyways, this seems like a lot of trouble (and would complicate the task of distro packagers) for a minor feature. More generally, this whole thread screams "overengineering" IMO. It certainly is -- the simple solution is for sendmail to fail if it cannot really send mail anywhere, but that simple solution is not implemented. But this is better than the alternative that is proposed, which is to require every user to understand something about how to mail should be sent on that machine. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/