Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently

[Don Armstrong]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2008, address@hidden wrote:
> Actually no. As a counterexample, for my laptop, "the destination"
> will never be "reachable" (smtp-wise). I have an smtp running on it
> because my distro insists on it and I don't feel like fighting it.

Almost all of the sane distributions configure their default MTA to
send to some smarthost by default. [I know that's how exim, postfix,
and nullmailer are configured in Debian.]

There's no reason not to have a working /usr/lib/sendmail on unix.


Don Armstrong

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