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

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> Good point.  Here's a solution:
>
> - set the default to smtpmail-send-it.
> - If smtpmail is not configured, it can then start by prompting whether
>   the user actually wants to use something else (either his MUA or his
>   MTA), and if not then goes on prompting for smtpmail configuration.

This is basically what I've implemented with `sendmail-query-once' later
in the thread.  :-)

Could you take a look at whether what it does is reasonable, and if so,
I can check in a change that makes it the default.

> BTW, we should push the fd.o or gconf guys to provide some centralized
> configuration of email, so that all MUAs (including Gnus, Thunderbird,
> ...) can share info about how to send email, where to fetch it, ...

Yes.  That would be a good long-term solution for GNU/Linux-ey
distributions. 

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