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: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:31:59 -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> <877h7tgq8k.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310149997 15945 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2011 18:33:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:33:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 08 20:33:12 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 1QfFrU-0006oO-AN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:33:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36068 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfFrT-0001Pk-Kg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60318) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfFqM-0001FQ-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:32:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfFqK-00048h-Oh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:48864) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfFqK-00048Z-DR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:32:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfFqJ-0004hX-VG; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:31:59 -0400 In-reply-to: <877h7tgq8k.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> (pmlists@free.fr) 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:141814 Archived-At: Why not just print a big message on standard output at the end of "make install" (or also at the beginning), like for example: "Attention: the default value of send-mail-function is now smtp. If you want emacs to make use of your local MTA, then please change line X in file Y." `make install' produces lots of output; people are likely not to read it closely. To make this solution work, it would be necessary to make this message stand out so people would notice it. -- 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/