From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: batch mode to send an email Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:25:10 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <44D7069F.7010105@speakeasy.net> <44D78F5D.8080306@speakeasy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154993177 13345 80.91.229.2 (7 Aug 2006 23:26:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 23:26:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 08 01:26:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GAEU4-0007co-OI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:26:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GAEU4-0006cs-5C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GAETp-0006cK-Hw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:25:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GAETo-0006bt-SF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:25:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GAETo-0006bq-Kk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:25:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GAEY9-0004F6-Ey for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:30:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GAETX-0007YJ-9R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:25:35 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:25:35 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:25:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: <44D78F5D.8080306@speakeasy.net> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36565 Archived-At: ken wrote: > Kevin Rodgers wrote: >> >> (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it >> smtpmail-smtp-server "mail.server.tld") >> >> (setq mail-default-headers >> "X-RTFM: Sending Mail; Mail Sending; (smtpmail)Emacs Speaks SMTP\n") >> >> (mail nil "someuser@somewhere.somedomain" "my favorite subject") >> >> (insert "Blah, blah, blah.\n") >> >> (mail-send-and-exit) >> > > Kevin, > > Thanks very much for your reply. But it didn't work. All I did was > change the destination email address and the mail server to actual, > existing values. > > The error I got was: > > Wrong number of arguments: #[(arg) > ("/usr/share/emacs/21.3/lisp/mail/sendmail.elc" . 21146) nil 2 > ("/usr/share/emacs/21.3/lisp/mail/sendmail.elc" . 20985) "P"], 0 > > (all on one line, of course. My mail client autowraps.) > > I commented out ''(mail nil ....)'' and the error went away. > > "C-h f mail" says there can be more args, but doesn't say it must. I'm > not certain how to fix this line. Mail accepts anywhere between 0 and 7 arguments: (mail &optional noerase to subject in-reply-to cc replybuffer actions) The call above passes 3, so I can't imagine why it is complaining. -- Kevin