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Default of send-mail-function (was: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item
From: |
Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
Default of send-mail-function (was: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q) |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:05:49 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
[ Shifting this to emacs-devel ]
On Mon, Apr 07 2008, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> Just a question since I do not understand:
>
> I told earlier that on w32 this works because the bug reporter falls
> back to using the system mail program (as an example this in my case
> Thunderbird). Why can't this be done on other systems as well today?
On GNU/Linux, send-mail-function typically defaults to
send-mail-function. [1] I.e. the mail is feed to /usr/sbin/sendmail.
/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. If we would use this on gnu/linux as well, it would
pass the mail to browse-url-browser-function, which is the first one
installed on the system out of: gnome-moz-remote, mozilla (this should
be moved down the list and be replace by seamonkey, IMHO), firefox,
galeon (is galeon still alive?), kfmclient (KDE), etc. Now it depends
on whether this *browser* handles mailto-URLs in a sensible way.
[I hope I understood the code correctly. If not, please correct me.]
One might argue that this is better then relying on
/usr/sbin/sendmail. I'd tend to agree.
Bye, Reiner.
[1] Gnus' message.el tries a bit harder to ensure /usr/sbin/sendmail
exist.
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- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, (continued)
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/05
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/04/05
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/05
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/04/06
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/06
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/04/07
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/07
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/04/07
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/07
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/07
- Default of send-mail-function (was: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q),
Reiner Steib <=
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/07
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Reiner Steib, 2008/04/07
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Jason Rumney, 2008/04/07
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/04/07
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Jason Rumney, 2008/04/08
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Manoj Srivastava, 2008/04/08
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Jason Rumney, 2008/04/08
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Manoj Srivastava, 2008/04/08
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/08
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Jason Rumney, 2008/04/08