Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently

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

On Sat, May 31 2008, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:

> Though I am not at all sure what is happening on your system. On my w32 system
> mail-user-agent is 'sendmail-user-agent. 

`mail-user-agent' primarily specifies which *mail composition* package
is used:

,----[ <f1> v mail-user-agent RET ]
| mail-user-agent is a variable defined in `simple.el'.
| Its value is gnus-user-agent
| 
| Documentation:
| *Your preference for a mail composition package.
| Various Emacs Lisp packages (e.g. Reporter) require you to compose an
| outgoing email message.  This variable lets you specify which
| mail-sending package you prefer.  
| 
| Valid values include:
| 
|   `sendmail-user-agent' -- use the default Emacs Mail package.
|                            See Info node `(emacs)Sending Mail'.
|   `mh-e-user-agent'     -- use the Emacs interface to the MH mail system.
|                            See Info node `(mh-e)'.
|   `message-user-agent'  -- use the Gnus Message package.
|                            See Info node `(message)'.
|   `gnus-user-agent'     -- like `message-user-agent', but with Gnus
|                            paraphernalia, particularly the Gcc: header for
|                            archiving.
| 
| Additional valid symbols may be available; check with the author of
| your package for details.  The function should return non-nil if it
| succeeds.
| 
| See also `read-mail-command' concerning reading mail.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
`----

> However when sending bug reports mailclient-send-it' is used to send
> the message.

If `mail-user-agent' is `sendmail-user-agent', the value from
`send-mail-function' specifies how to *send* the prepared mail.  When
`mail-user-agent' is `message-user-agent' or `gnus-user-agent',
`message-send-mail-function' is used.  Dunno about `mh-e-user-agent'.

See also my other mail: <v9wsla4x68.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>.

Bye, Reiner.
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