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Re: gnus / message-send-mail-with-mailclient [patch]
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Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
Re: gnus / message-send-mail-with-mailclient [patch] |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:29:16 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Wed, Mar 22 2006, David Reitter wrote:
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> On 18 Mar 2006, at 11:44, Reiner Steib wrote:
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> So I think mailclient should be used in preference to smtpmail.
>>
>> If the user (or site admin) has configured
>> `smtpmail-[default-]smtp-server' (or $SMTPSERVER) I think we can
>> assume that it works. Else the user can customize the variable
>> `message-send-mail-function'.
>>
>> I'd like to add `mailclient.el' to Gnus' contrib directory so that
>> Emacs 21 (or XEmacs) users can also use it. David, WDYT?
>
> I just tried out mailclient on emacs 21 on my FC3 (KDE) installation
> (where Firefox 1.06 is the standard web browser and reacts to
> browse- url). Turns out that there, browse-url does not work with
> mailto URLs. No feedback is given, and Emacs wrongly states that the
> e-mail is sent.
>
> browse-url-browser-function is set to `htmlview', which seems to be
> the default.
>
> On Darwin/OS X, Emacs 21 in the terminal works just fine with
> mailclient.
>
> In conclusion I'd say: yes, offer it to Emacs 21 users.
Thanks for your feedback. I will add it in contrib and change the
`message-send-mail-function' after the upcoming release of Gnus
5.10.8.
> However, do not use mailclient as a preference to zero-configuration
> methods (sendmail) on GNU/Linux systems. As for `smtpmail', I can't
> tell. But at least one would think that smtpmail shows an error
> message in case it hasn't been configured (with a server), right?
> That's better than showing nothing or misleading the user.
ELISP> (and (locate-library "smtpmail")
(require 'smtpmail)
smtpmail-default-smtp-server)
nil
ELISP> (setq message-send-mail-function 'message-smtpmail-send-it)
message-smtpmail-send-it
==> smtpmail-via-smtp: `smtpmail-smtp-server' not defined
For sendmail, we also get a warning:
ELISP> (setq sendmail-program "/foo/bar/baz")
"/foo/bar/baz"
ELISP> (setq message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-sendmail)
message-send-mail-with-sendmail
==> Searching for program: no such file or directory, /foo/bar/baz
> Maybe we should caution users appropriately if mailclient is used on
> systems where we can't guarantee reliability?
I can't think of a reliable way to check if the application called by
`browse-url' handled the mailto link correctly.
At least, `mailclient-send-it' could inform the user what it does.
Something like "Delegating [shortened-mailto-stuff] to
`browse-url'...". Maybe including the value of
`browse-url-browser-function' in the message. Note that
`browse-url-browser-function' might be a (REGEXP . FUNCTION) list.
Bye, Reiner.
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- Re: gnus / message-send-mail-with-mailclient [patch], Reiner Steib, 2006/03/16
- Re: gnus / message-send-mail-with-mailclient [patch], David Reitter, 2006/03/17
- Re: gnus / message-send-mail-with-mailclient [patch], Eli Zaretskii, 2006/03/17
- Re: gnus / message-send-mail-with-mailclient [patch], David Reitter, 2006/03/17
- Re: gnus / message-send-mail-with-mailclient [patch], Reiner Steib, 2006/03/17
- Re: gnus / message-send-mail-with-mailclient [patch], Eli Zaretskii, 2006/03/18
- Re: gnus / message-send-mail-with-mailclient [patch], Reiner Steib, 2006/03/18
- Re: gnus / message-send-mail-with-mailclient [patch], David Reitter, 2006/03/27
- Re: gnus / message-send-mail-with-mailclient [patch],
Reiner Steib <=
- Re: gnus / message-send-mail-with-mailclient [patch], David Reitter, 2006/03/24
- Re: gnus / message-send-mail-with-mailclient [patch], Kevin Rodgers, 2006/03/24
- Re: gnus / message-send-mail-with-mailclient [patch], David Reitter, 2006/03/26