Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Florian Beck wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Florian Beck wrote:
> > > Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
> > > usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.
> > >
> > > Your bug report will be posted to the address@hidden mailing list.
> > >
> > > Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> > > and the precise symptoms of the bug:
> > >
> > > If I send a bug with 
> > >
> > > emacs -Q
> > > M-x report-emacs-bug
> > >
> > > emacs trys to use sendmail-user-agent by default.
> > >
> > > This doesn't work, which is no surprise because I haven't even installed
> > > sendmail.
> > >
> > > What *is* a problem is that there is no indication that sending the
> > > message failed. Emacs even displays Sending…done.
> > >
> > > if I wouldn't read emacs-pretest-bug, I'd never known by bug report was
> > > not delivered.
> > Is not this similar to the situation we had before on w32? The
> > solution to that was mailclient-send-it in mailclient.el.
>
> No, this happens on Ubuntu and probably on many gnu-linux-systems that
> do not install sendmail by default. I'm sorry, I forgot the system information.
> (see below)
>
> Also, I'm not looking for a workaround. (After I set mail-user-agent to
> gnus-user-agent everything is fine.) I'm reporting that on systems
> without sendmail bug reports likely disappear without trace.

What I meant is that we should not require users to use any special mail 
agent to send bug reports. If they just have a system mail client set up 
it should work by using that.

Perhaps you did not have a system mail client set up?

> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
>  of 2008-05-29 on aeschylus
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10400090
> configured using `configure  '--with-x-toolkit=no' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O0 
> -fno-crossjumping -g''