Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently

[Florian Beck]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:

>>
>> Not that I know of. I never needed to and I would not know how to set
>> it up. As I said, now that I know about the problem, it is easy for me
>> to fix.
>>
>> Look, if you think my setup is bizzare, please ignore my report.
>
> No, I just wanted to be sure about what could be done.
>
> From what you have told us it looks like when
>
> - there is no way for Emacs to send the bug report itself
> - and there is no system mail client that can be used
>
> then Emacs pretends it still has sent the message. That is of course a
> bug that should be removed if it is possible.

Exactly.

> Though I am not at all sure what is happening on your system. On my
> w32 system mail-user-agent is 'sendmail-user-agent. However when
> sending bug reports `mailclient-send-it' is used to send the message.
>
> You said you know how to fix it. Do you mean you have a solution for
> how to fix this bug in Emacs? 

Sorry, what i meant is that it was easy to fix *my* Emacs after I found
out what the problem was.

> Otherwise could you check what is happening when you try to send a bug
> report? Is `mailclient-send-it' called?

It is not. It is only called on darwin and windows-nt. From
`send-mail-function':

  (if (and window-system (memq system-type '(darwin windows-nt)))
      'mailclient-send-it
    'sendmail-send-it)

Now, I think this bug bites anyone who
- is not on darwin/windows-nt (where mailclient-send-it might be able to 
deliver)
- has not configured sendmail and
- has not configured mail-user-agent (or reports from emacs -Q)

Am I wrong?


-- 
Florian Beck