Re: Default of send-mail-function

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Mon, Apr 07 2008, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
[...]
>> /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.

Sure.

> So I don't see how a Windows box is so very different from a GNU/Linux
> system.  It needs email setup as well.

The main difference WRT send-mail-function is that it is extremely
unlikely to find a functional /usr/sbin/sendmail on Windows systems.
If people think that it is more likely to find a functional mailto-URL
handler also on GNU/Linux, we can discuss if Emacs should follow "the
tyranny of numbers" (as Manoj calls it).

I don't have a very strong opinion about it (that's why I wrote "One
might argue [...].  I'd tend to agree").

Bye, Reiner.
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