Re: Fixing report-emacs-bug

[Joakim Verona]

Just an idea:

Maybe a fallback method for report-emacs-bug could be implemented that
uses the emacs url library.

If mailing doesnt work, emacs could try posting the bug report through
a web form.

The benefit would be that as long as the emacs user has a working
internet connection, the bug-report would with a high degree of
reliability be delivered to the web server. 

The web server could then mail the report as usual to emacs bugs.

The drawback would be that there would have to be a webserver running
a mailer script, that would have to be high uptime, and maybe could be
abused.




"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

>     So the desired behavior would probably be that sendmail gives a  
>     warning to stderr when it is called, right?
>
> sendmail.el could be programmed to check for this.
>
>     If so, would Emacs actually pick that up (at the right point in time)?
>     I suppose not, since sendmail is only called when the e-mail is to be  
>     sent, right?
>
> That is true, but it may not be as bad as you think.
>
>     But I think what we could do is have sendmail.el issue a 'sendmail - 
>     q' command, which flushes the mail queue if the mail system is  
>     running. If not, you get this:
>
> That would work too.
>
> However, I am wondering if there is some confusion.
> If Postfix is running, why doesn't sendmail.el send out
> mail thru Postfix?

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Joakim Verona
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