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Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:01:24 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> Can you do M-x trace-function-background RET call-process-region RET,
>> then run the code, then look at the *trace-output* buffer to see what
>> call-process-region returns?
> 1 -> call-process-region: start=1 end=77 program="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
> delete=nil buffer=0 display=nil args=("-oi" "-oem" "-odb" "-t")
> 1 <- call-process-region: nil
> According to the docstring, call-process-region doesn't return the exit
> value, because buffer=0.
> This is because mail-interactive is nil by default.
Duh! Thank you for tracking this down. I've changed the default of
mail-interactive with the patch below.
Stefan
--- sendmail.el.~1.314.~ 2008-05-11 17:49:35.000000000 -0400
+++ sendmail.el 2008-06-06 01:58:09.000000000 -0400
@@ -114,7 +114,11 @@
:group 'sendmail)
;;;###autoload
-(defcustom mail-interactive nil
+(defcustom mail-interactive t
+ ;; We used to use a default of nil rather than t, but nowadays it is very
+ ;; common for sendmail to be misconfigured, so one cannot rely on the
+ ;; bounce message to be delivered anywhere, least of all to the
+ ;; user's mailbox.
"Non-nil means when sending a message wait for and display errors.
nil means let mailer mail back a message to report errors."
:type 'boolean
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