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Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently |
Date: |
Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:24:22 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> Look, if you think my setup is bizzare, please ignore my report. But
>>>>> I don't think it is.
>>>> Me neither, see the sub-thread[1] about this in April on emacs-devel.
>>> Well, /usr/sbin/sendmail indeed *does* exist on my system, although the
>>> sendmail package is not installed. Confusing, isn't it?
>>
>> Not necessarily: many packages (i.e. most MTAs) provide
>> /usr/sbin/sendmail. Could you try and figure out what that
>> `/usr/sbin/sendmail' is?
> It is from the postfix package, but obviously not configured:
> address@hidden:~$ sendmail
> sendmail: fatal: open /etc/postfix/main.cf: No such file or directory
> address@hidden:~$ echo $?
> 75
Good, so this one is not misconfigured. We should be able to DTRT here.
>> We definitely have a problem in this respect. Traditionally on Unix,
>> sending mail is done via the /usr/sbin/sendmail program, but nowadays
>> it's very common to have such programs completely misconfigured.
>> It's fundamentally a bug in the distributions, I believe, but it's not
>> one that we can expect to see fixed any time soon, so we're going to
>> have to deal with it.
> As a test, I installed sendmail from the ubuntu repository. It kind of
> works, but only delivers mail locally. Of course, now sendmail returns 0.
I.e. it's broken and misconfigured.
> So a misconfigured sendmail may be difficult to detect.
Yes. But clearly we're not even doing the right when sendmail fails
cleanly, so there's room for improvement.
Stefan
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Chong Yidong, 2008/06/01
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/06/01
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/06/01
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/01
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Florian Beck, 2008/06/01
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently,
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- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/05
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Florian Beck, 2008/06/05
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/05
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Florian Beck, 2008/06/05
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/06
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/06
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/06
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Florian Beck, 2008/06/06
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Chong Yidong, 2008/06/07
- Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently, Reiner Steib, 2008/06/07