Re: 23.0.50; [message-send-mail-function] wrong description and regression

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Luca Capello <luca@pca.it> writes:

  > Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
  > usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.
  > 
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  > 
  > Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
  > and the precise symptoms of the bug:
  > 
  > Hello!
  > 
  > Please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed to the list.
  > 
  > Since at least one week `message-send-mail-function' gets assigned a
  > wrong default value, which, according to its description, should be
  > `message-send-mail-with-sendmail'.  However, it seems that the default
  > value is `smtpmail-send-it'.  In fact, I discovered this bug because
  > after the weekly upgrade of the Debian emacs-snapshot package I couldn't
  > send mail anymore from Gnus.
  > 
  > Steps to reproduce the bug:
  > 
  >   $ emacs -Q
  >   M-: (require 'message)
  >   C-h v message-send-mail-function
  > 
  > The bug is caused by the fact that `sendmail-program' isn't bounded in
  > lisp/gnus/message.el:624.  The following steps restore the "default"
  > behavior:

Thanks for the bug report.
This has been known for a few weeks, Reiner Steib has a fix for it, he
said he'd install it when he gets a chance.