Re: Fixing report-emacs-bug

[David Reitter]

On 4 Jul 2005, at 19:35, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Who cares?  All the end user sees is that, without having messed  
> with the
> system in any way, her email didn't get to the destination and she  
> didn't
> receive a bounce either.  I.e. it's "lost".
>
> Whether a hacker/guru can recover the email 2 years later or not is  
> beside
> the point.

I agree 100%. That's why it would be good to get a warning from  
sendmail.

> > Just like on a GNU/Linux system with postfix shut down (is that  
> > so?  can't
> > check this lacking root access on our systems.)
>
> Could be, but that doesn't make the behavior correct on Mac OS X.

Well, it's probably not good behavior on any system.

> > OK, that's a good idea.  I'll report this. But don't expect this  
> > to  be
> > changed any time soon.
>
> Of course not.  But I just get really annoyed when people ask us to  
> work
> around bugs in proprietary systems without even bothering to try  
> and get
> those bugs fixed.

Fine I've reported the issue.
Don't forget that this is not just in a propriety system.

1. This occurs in Postfix, which is not proprietary software.
2. This occurs in Darwin, which is open source.
3. This will occur in any GNU/Linux system where the administrator  
has stopped the postfix daemon, which may be a reasonable thing to do  
when locking down a system.

I'll post any reply I get from Apple to this list.