Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:08:35 +0200
> 
> If you install Ubuntu on a new machine, it will install exim, but leave
> exim in local delivery mode only by default.  If you then send email
> from your brand new fresly installed Emacs, it will fail silently.  It
> will call `sendmail-send-it', and exim will take it, and deliver a
> bounce locally.  Which probably won't be seen by the user.
> 
> I think that's pretty unacceptable behaviour.

Failing silently is indeed bad.

> On a freshly installed Windows, the situation is similar, but at least
> it won't fail silently.

Exactly.

> What about if we default to `query-user', and then the first time you
> use it, it'll ask "Use the built-in SMTP support, or use {the Windows
> mailer,exim} to send the mail?", and then save the response.

That'd be fine, I think.