Re: Idea for determining what users use

[Jan D.]

> > I have machines where I can read and send mail with mail applications,
> > but not with Emacs.  Any mail Emacs would try to send would go to
> > /var/spool/mqueue and stay there forever.
>
> These are very badly configured machines.
> Complain to whoever is responsible for such a brain dead behavior.

That would be me :-)

> A missing sendmail or a sendmail that returns a particular error
> could be a useful hint to convince Emacs to automatically try the
> smtpmail package.

Sendmail is not missing and does not return any error message.  The
sendmail daemon is not running, that is all.  Why should it?  Nobody
is using it, and a potential security risk is removed.  It seems 
excessive
to configure sendmail and start a daemon just because Emacs might want
to send a mail.

        Jan D.