Re: Default of send-mail-function

[Manoj Srivastava]

On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:50:49 +0100, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> said: 


> Yes, that can currently happen with the default on Windows and Mac
> too. But the fact that obviously experienced users who have set Emacs
> as their default mail client end up with a loop if they don't change
> the default configuration should not prevent us from making a change
> that benefits less experienced users who currently experience a broken
> mail configuration and may not have the knowledge to configure their
> way out of it.

        I am not sure that this is th case, xdg-email is as likely to be
 broken as anything else. Indeed, on Debian, when the sysadmin installs
 a MTA, and sets it up correctly, _every_ user on the system has a
 working email. If xdg-email defaults to thunderbird; then every user
 has to set it up correctly, which they  might not have expertise to do.

        At my last install of a Debian system, I recall being asked how
 to set up my MTA -- and local delivery was only one of five options.

        These decisions we are making do not come at no cost. Right now,
 emacs works out of the box with no user setup for sending email on the
 corporate debian boxes at my place of work; this change would mean
 every single user will have to customize emacs on every single box at
 work.

        I would find that degrades the quality of implementation for
 emacs.  How are we so sure that I am in the minority here?

        manoj
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