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

[Ken Brown]

On 8/2/2011 6:09 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Ken Brown<address@hidden>  writes:
>
> > > I guess it works on other systems, too?  If sendmail can't be found,
> > > then perhaps defaulting to mailclient in the `n' case would be a good
> > > default on all systems?
> >
> > I'm not sure if the feature freeze would prevent this change from
> > being made, but I'm sending this as a reminder in case you've
> > forgotten about it.
>
> I don't think anybody had any comments to make.  :-)
>
> How common is it that non-Windows people have a client set up (reachable
> via mailclient) that can send mail?

I do (under Cygwin).  If I understand mailclient correctly, all that's 
required is that browse-url be able to handle a mailto link.  So I would 
guess that a lot of people have a client set up whether they know it or not.