From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default of send-mail-function (was: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q) Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:44:22 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87tzig16o6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87od8ng92x.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87y77recuj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87prt2droq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fxtxeakj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <47FA8145.3010906@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207604736 3263 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2008 21:45:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:45:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Reiner Steib Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 23:46:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JizAB-0002Z5-1T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:46:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiz9X-0000RJ-Tx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:45:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiz9T-0000RD-3n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:45:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiz9Q-0000Qu-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:45:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiz9Q-0000Qr-Nw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:45:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il ([84.95.2.13]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jiz9Q-00066z-AI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:45:16 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([80.230.253.114]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0JYZ002146D3NIX0@i_mtaout5.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:58:16 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:94630 Archived-At: > From: Reiner Steib > Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:05:49 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On GNU/Linux, send-mail-function typically defaults to > send-mail-function. [1] I.e. the mail is feed to /usr/sbin/sendmail. > /usr/sbin/sendmail typically exist on every GNU/Linux systems, however > on today's end-user desktops, it's quite likely that it has not have > been configured correctly. > > On system-type darwin and windows-nt, send-mail-function defaults to > mailclient-send-it which passes the mail to "the system's mail client" > via a mailto-URL. But it's not guaranteed that "the system's mail client" on Windows is configured correctly, either. You need at the very least to tell it the name or address of your ISP's mail server; that isn't automatic. For example, at home I have 4 users on an XP machine, only one of which is configured to send and receive email via the standard Windows mail client. Another user (me) uses Emacs and smtp-mail (which also needs a 3-line setup), and the other 2 users cannot send mail at all, because the mail client wasn't set up for their accounts. So I don't see how a Windows box is so very different from a GNU/Linux system. It needs email setup as well.