Re: emacs and smtpmail

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: jpw@pobox.com (John Paul Wallington)
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 20:33:25 +0100
> 
> >       The variable `smtpmail-smtp-service' controls the port on the
> >     server to contact.  It is either a string, in which case it will be
> >     translated into an integer using system calls, or an integer.
> 
> Harry says that specifying a port number as a string worked under
> XEmacs.  Do you think it would be a good idea to handle strings
> representing an integer in `make-network-process' ?  Alternatively, we
> could add such support as a special case to the smtpmail library
> instead.

It's your call: either allow "25" or fix the docs to say that a
literal number cannot come in a string representation.  I don't have
an opinion what's best, but perhaps asking on emacs-devel will bring
some.