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

[Luca Capello]

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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:

  $ emacs -Q
  M-: (require 'sendmail)
  M-: (require 'message)
  C-h v message-send-mail-function

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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In GNU Emacs 23.0.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
 of 2007-11-19 on elegiac, modified by Debian
 (Debian emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20071119-1)
configured using `configure  '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--host' 
'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' 
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' 
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' 
'--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.50/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.0.50/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.0.50/leim'
 '--with-x=no' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 
'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Group

Minor modes in effect:
  gnus-topic-mode: t
  gnus-undo-mode: t
  gpm-mouse-mode: t
  display-battery-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
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ESC [ B ESC [ B ESC [ B ESC [ A ESC [ A ESC [ A ESC 
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[ A ESC [ A ESC [ A ESC [ A ESC [ A ESC [ A g ESC [ 
B ESC [ A ESC [ A ESC [ A RET RET # RET # ESC [ B RET 
# ESC [ B ESC [ B ESC [ B RET # RET # RET # RET # ESC 
[ B RET # ESC > ESC < B DEL y x RET ESC u ESC [ A B 
m C-a C-k n n m l TAB l i TAB D e b i TAB p r TAB RET 
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TAB TAB DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL r e 
p o TAB r t TAB e m TAB b u TAB RET

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