Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently

[Chong Yidong]

Florian Beck <address@hidden> writes:

>>> 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.
>
> 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.

This is indeed a problem.  Would anyone like to work on fixing it?