Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently

[Stefan Monnier]

>> That's odd.  From what you said earlier, it seems you're using the
>> sendmail.el code to send the message.  And that code does (around line
>> 1167):
>> (exit-value (apply 'call-process-region args)))
>> (or (null exit-value) (eq 0 exit-value)
>> (error "Sending...failed with exit value %d" exit-value)))
>> 
>> so it should catch a non-0 exit status and signal an error for it.
>> 
>> Could you try and investigate, to see whether you're indeed running this
>> code and why it doesn't get an exit-value of 75?

> Yes, this code is run. As far as I can see the following happens:

> * append((1 72 "/usr/sbin/sendmail" nil 0 nil "-oi") nil nil ("-oem" "-odb") 
> ("-t") nil)

> And then:

> Debugger entered--returning value: nil
>   call-process-region(1 72 "/usr/sbin/sendmail" "/tmp/emacsY9owP5" 0 nil 
> "-oi" "-oem" "-odb" "-t")
> * apply(call-process-region (1 72 "/usr/sbin/sendmail" nil 0 nil "-oi" "-oem" 
> "-odb" "-t"))
> * byte-code [snipped]
> * sendmail-send-it()
>   mail-send()
>   mail-send-and-exit(nil)
>   call-interactively(mail-send-and-exit nil nil)

Can you do M-x trace-function-background RET call-process-region RET,
then run the code, then look at the *trace-output* buffer to see what
call-process-region returns?

>> (or (null exit-value) (eq 0 exit-value)
>> (error "Sending...failed with exit value %d" exit-value)))

> is never run, because it belongs to the else branch of the enclosing
> if statement.

Hmm... which version of sendmail.el is that?  On the trunk and the
Emacs-22 branch, this code is the body of the `let' that runs
call-process-region, so it definitely should be run.


        Stefan