Re: gnus / message-send-mail-with-mailclient [patch]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Reiner Steib <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:10:44 +0100
> 
> How about the following?
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun message-send-mail-function ()
>   "Return suitable value for the variable `message-send-mail-function'."
>   (cond ((and sendmail-program
>             (executable-find sendmail-program))
>        'message-send-mail-with-sendmail)
>       ((and (locate-library "smtpmail")
>             (require 'smtpmail)
>             smtpmail-default-smtp-server)
>        'message-smtpmail-send-it)
>       ((locate-library "mailclient")
>        'message-send-mail-with-mailclient)
>       (t
>        (lambda ()
>          (error "Don't know how to send mail.  Please customize 
> `message-send-mail-function'.")))))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This is good, but I think using smtpmail by default is not the best
idea: it requires manual setup (at the very least, the SMTP server
address).  So I think mailclient should be used in preference to
smtpmail.