Re: Fixing report-emacs-bug

[David Reitter]

On 1 Jul 2005, at 23:45, Richard M. Stallman wrote:

>     I thought about this, but the thing is: the external bug reporting
>     facility will run the mail client and cause it to start a new  
> message
>     editor. If we changed sendmail.el, we would present users with the
>     internal editor first (for bug-reporting), then show them the  
> same e-
>     mail again in their external editor. That'd be confusing.
>
> Maybe, but I think suitable messages could avoid the confusion.

What about using the APIs provided by the various systems to send e- 
mail?
On Windows, it's MAPI - on Unix it's generally sendmail, and  I don't  
know if there is a special one on the Mac.

>     Yet, one could augment compose-mail to start the external  
> agent. But
>     I assume such changes would have knock-on effects that would be  
> best
>     considered after the release. Right?
>
> Not necessarily.  If it is a completely new path of control flow,
> and it only gets used on the Mac, it won't break anything.

Who would use that?
People that use Emacs for e-mail will certainly want to set up their  
postfix system and not compose e-mails in Emacs and then editing it  
in an external e-mail client before it's sent off. Or are there  
packages that use sendmail a lot? Do people use Emacs for certain non- 
regular e-mail? Then, I would certainly see why this would make a lot  
of sense. And we should realize it as a general option, which could  
be on by default only on the Mac. I'd be happy to take a look at that.

Also, I posted some ideas regarding sendmail (and checking whether  
it's live) in my previous post.