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Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function'
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function' |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:32:10 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> Maybe we should set it not to smtpmail-send-it nor to
> mailclient-send-it, but to a new function that prompts the user for
> which method to use (mailclient/smtpmail/sendmail) and then saves the
> result via customize.
Yes, but like I said, we would then, in the future, be unable to change
the default again, since all users would by then have a setting
explicitly in .emacs.
Which may be fine (and may be exactly what we want), but is something we
should consider the ramifications of.
> Of course, maybe we can spice up that function to try and guess which
> choice to make without prompting the user (e.g. maybe gconf already hods
> the answer?), but at least the fallback should be to prompt the user
> because in general there's no safe answer (mailclient won't work on most
> of my machines since I rarely bother to configure another MUA).
I think mailclient, in general, is a very bad default option to offer
the users. It's fine for random programs (that don't have native SMTP
capabilities) to pop up a strange foreign mail program, but Emacs is
more akin to an OS in this area.
Emacs has a lot of mail (composition and reading) programs running
within it (Wanderlust, Gnus, mew, rmail, VM, etc), and smtpmail.el is
the obvious place to configure mail centrally in Emacs.
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- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', (continued)
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Teemu Likonen, 2011/06/29
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/29
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/29
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Riley, 2011/06/29
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Tim Cross, 2011/06/29
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/06/30
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Andreas Schwab, 2011/06/30
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/30
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', David De La Harpe Golden, 2011/06/26
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Stefan Monnier, 2011/06/26
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function',
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <=
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/26
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/26
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/26
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', David De La Harpe Golden, 2011/06/26
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/26
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', David De La Harpe Golden, 2011/06/26
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Tim Cross, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/27