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: How do I suppress mail sending via Thunderbird? Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:08:27 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301375335 12860 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2011 05:08:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:08:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 29 07:08:51 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4RAh-0002wb-FK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:08:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34019 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4RAg-0004NZ-T4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:08:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37021 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4RA8-0004NN-Cm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:08:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4RA7-0001fz-BD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:08:16 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:33684) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4RA7-0001ff-2M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:08:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4RA3-0002l0-QB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:08:11 +0200 Original-Received: from c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.96.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:08:11 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:08:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:80502 Archived-At: On 3/28/11 7:01 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > I'm in the midst of migrating from XEmacs to GNU Emacs on my Mac. My > current stumbling block is sending mail. I use VM to read mail. Whenever > I try to send a message from a buffer created by vm-mail it executes > vm-mail-send-and-exit. For some reason that pops open Thunderbird to send > the message. > > Now I suppose this would be fine if I actually liked Thunderbird. I use > it only for work email, and curse it repeatedly, multiple times per day. > In XEmacs I was using an older version of VM (8.0.2.something). I > installed the current version (8.1.93a) in GNU Emacs. I dug into the > source, but couldn't figure out how it passed off the message to T-Bird. > How do I get VM to just send the dang message itself? Try customizing the send-mail-client variable (it defaults to mailclient-send-it on Mac OS X). -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA