Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function'

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 26/06/11 14:08, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> It's the same situation on Linux, really.  Today, if you want to send
> email on Linux, you will have configured exim to do the right thing.
> (Or it will be configured by somebody else for you.)

What? Hold on there. On fd.o desktop systems, one uses "xdg-email" to 
use the user's preferred email composer to pop up a mail ready for sending.

Some trouble(tm) arises if an advanced the user has actually gone and 
configured emacsclient as their preferred email composer.

> Defaulting to `smtpmail-send-it' will make Emacs behave exactly like all
> other mail clients: It'll ask you for the outgoing server name.

Pretty annoying as I'd have already configured that in my usual mail 
client that apps should be using, grr.