bug#9074: 24.0.50; problems trying to mail bug report, again

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> The user must edit the From field, errors are raised, etc.  It is
> practically impossible to send a bug report from emacs -Q now.

Nothing has changed in the From header generation as far as I know.

> 4. "Configure outgoing SMTP in Emacs? (y or n) n
>
> (But why does the UI switch from yes/no to y/n?  I already pointed this 
> out...)

It isn't really a yes-or-no kinda question.

> 5. "Sending failed; no recipients"
>
> That, is spite of the fact that the To: field has bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.  What
> happened?  What do you do now?
>
> No pop up of email client, nada.

That sounds like a bug.  What's your `sendmail-query-once-function'
after saying "n"?

> Configure outgoing SMTP in Emacs? (y or n)  y
> Setting `sendmail-query-once-function' temporarily since "emacs -q" would
> overwrite customizations
> smtpmail-send-it: Sending failed; no recipients

Here is says that you typed "y", not "n" as you said earlier.

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