From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs and smtpmail Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 00:47:11 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1151499992.999428.271020@y41g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> <871wt5h4iq.fsf@thunk.shootybangbang.com> <87ejx5f7cq.fsf@thunk.shootybangbang.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151790455 16109 80.91.229.2 (1 Jul 2006 21:47:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 21:47:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 01 23:47:33 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 1FwnJF-00054M-NE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 23:47:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FwnJF-0001X7-5q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:47:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FwnJ3-0001Ww-L7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:47:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FwnJ1-0001Wk-BE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:47:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FwnJ1-0001Wh-4m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:47:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FwnW6-0002aw-8Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:00:42 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-249-243.inter.net.il [84.228.249.243]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DYW60603 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 2 Jul 2006 00:47:09 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <87ejx5f7cq.fsf@thunk.shootybangbang.com> (jpw@pobox.com) 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:35780 Archived-At: > From: jpw@pobox.com (John Paul Wallington) > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 20:33:25 +0100 > > > The variable `smtpmail-smtp-service' controls the port on the > > server to contact. It is either a string, in which case it will be > > translated into an integer using system calls, or an integer. > > Harry says that specifying a port number as a string worked under > XEmacs. Do you think it would be a good idea to handle strings > representing an integer in `make-network-process' ? Alternatively, we > could add such support as a special case to the smtpmail library > instead. It's your call: either allow "25" or fix the docs to say that a literal number cannot come in a string representation. I don't have an opinion what's best, but perhaps asking on emacs-devel will bring some.