Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 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.]

That requires user-interaction.  It may require updating, etc...
Unless actively uses `sendmail' to send his email, he'll completely
forget to update/fix/configure this, past the initial setup.
All popular MUAs encourage you to not use sendmail, AFAICT.


        Stefan