Re: Non file buffers and default-directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Manuel Giraud <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 13:24:08 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Btw, if someone is looking for a worthy development task which could
> > be handled by threads, I have one: make smtpmail-send-it run from a
> > thread, thus avoiding to lock up Emacs until the email message is sent
> > (or fails to be sent).  This is especially important when the link is
> > flaky, in which case sending an email message could lock up Emacs for
> > many seconds.
> 
> Do you mean smtpmail-send-it itself or a caller of smtpmail-send-it?  And
> if so which one?

I mean smtpmail-send-it.  Specifically, its subroutine
smtpmail-via-smtp, which is what actually sends the email.