From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 5299@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5299: Default mailer (was: custom-reevaluate-setting / custom-initialize-delay)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:15:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a51002241215j5e0ca21eufb6f1fe6eb244ecb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmxyywk0t.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
> I think we need to revisit the setting for the default mailer: I think
> neither the mailclient-send-it nor any other setting is a good default.
> I think we should instead use as default a special function that prompts
> the user whether he wants to use his external MUA to send email
> (i.e. use mailclient-send-it), or to use /usr/sbin/sendmail, or to use
> smtpmail in which case it'll ask the user to configure his SMTP server.
>
> And this should be used on *all* systems rather than only under w32
> and/or macosx, since sadly /usr/sbin/sendmail is too often unusable even
> under GNU/Linux (my /usr/sbin/sendmail is usable, but I must admit that
> it took me a significant amount of work on my laptop, so I can't expect
> most people to go through that trouble).
That sounds good and in line with what we previously did.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-24 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-23 1:41 custom-reevaluate-setting / custom-initialize-delay David Reitter
2010-02-23 18:04 ` Glenn Morris
2010-02-23 18:40 ` David Reitter
2010-02-24 1:14 ` Glenn Morris
2010-02-24 3:47 ` David Reitter
2010-02-26 4:45 ` Glenn Morris
2010-02-23 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-23 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-23 19:08 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-24 4:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-24 4:19 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-24 3:09 ` Glenn Morris
2010-02-24 4:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-24 4:15 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-24 5:11 ` bug#5299: " Stefan Monnier
2010-02-24 5:30 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-24 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-24 17:35 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-24 18:51 ` bug#5299: Default mailer (was: custom-reevaluate-setting / custom-initialize-delay) Stefan Monnier
2010-02-24 20:15 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-02-24 21:13 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-24 21:35 ` bug#5299: Default mailer Stefan Monnier
2010-02-27 3:45 ` bug#5299: Glenn Morris
2010-02-24 7:15 ` custom-reevaluate-setting / custom-initialize-delay Reiner Steib
2010-02-24 16:29 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-25 4:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-25 6:47 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-26 14:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-26 15:14 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-26 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-26 17:54 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-24 4:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-24 4:22 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-24 4:26 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-24 9:46 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-02-24 16:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-24 18:58 ` Glenn Morris
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