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: `send-mail-function' default change Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:07:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310083946 30543 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2011 00:12:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:12:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 08 02:12:22 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 1Qeyg9-0003JQ-0z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:12:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59695 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qeyg7-0003mD-G2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:12:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48877) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qeybe-0002eA-Lk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qeybb-0003GK-Gi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:33135) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qeybb-0003GB-8s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qeyba-0005Px-28; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:07:38 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:31:34 -0400) 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:141766 Archived-At: This can't be done, because there's no reliable way to check whether sendmail does work. There is no obvious way, but there may be a way. You have given up too quickly. Earlier today I posed some questions to get info with which we may find a way. -- 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/