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

[Richard Stallman]

    > The other way Emacs gets installed is from a package, via apt-get
    > or something like it.  That always gets done as root.
    >
    > Thus, we can assume this test is done running as root.

    Except apt-get doesn't call make install, so it's a package maintainer
    gotcha.

Yes, Emacs package maintainers will need to DTRT.
However, if they forget to do so, the result won't be any worse
than if this feature were not implemented.

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