RE: Next pretest, and branching plans

["Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> > Related to this is the fact that bug #5299, a regression, 
> > is still outstanding. It prevents Windows users from
> > using `M-x report-emacs-bug' to file bugs.
> 
> I don't know what to fix there.  Email never worked for me on Windows
> without some setup.  I use smtpmail, but it will not work without
> setting it up for your ISP's mail server.
> 
> So, for me, there's no regression: it never worked in previous
> versions of Emacs, and it does not work now.
> 
> Lennart seems to know what kind of solution worked for you in the
> past, so perhaps Lennart could try fixing that, or at least describing
> what changed in Emacs that broke that solution, whatever it is.  I
> don't have Outlook set up to even try what you describe.

(Perhaps this really belongs in the bug #5299 thread?)

I have no idea what problems you had previously, or what caused the recent
problem.

But I can (and do) use `M-x report-emacs-bug' fine with Emacs releases 22 and 23
(and with pretests, before I reported the bug). It works fine in those releases
(still).

My mail client is Outlook, but I don't know if your mail client has anything to
do with your problems using `M-x report-emacs-bug'.

Something was changed since the Emacs 23.1 release, so that this became broken.
It _is_ a regression, at least for my use case with an external mail client
(Outlook). If it never worked for you, that's unfortunate, but that does not
mean that it never worked.

I don't think (but I don't know) that whatever enabled `report-emacs-bug' to
work previously was Outlook-specific. It might have been something
Windows-specific (dunno). It might have been something specific for use with an
external mail client (any external client) - dunno. But I doubt that it was
something Outlook-specific.