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

[Ken Brown]

On 8/4/2011 4:15 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > > > > I guess it works on other systems, too?  If sendmail can't be found,
> > > > > > then perhaps defaulting to mailclient in the `n' case would be a good
> > > > > > default on all systems?
> > > > > I'm not sure if the feature freeze would prevent this change from
> > > > > being made, but I'm sending this as a reminder in case you've
> > > > > forgotten about it.
> > > Thanks, yes it's something we want to do.
> > Good.  There's still the question of exactly what sendmail-query-once should
> > do.  I think it should query all users who haven't already set up smtpmail.
>
> I don't understand what you mean.  Clearly it should only query if
> sendmail-query-once-function is set to `query', otherwise it would keep
> querying forever those users who don't want to use&setup smtpmail.

Sorry, I wasn't clear.  I meant to refer only to the case where 
sendmail-query-once-function is set to `query'.  The existing code does 
not always query in that situation, even though the documentation says 
it does.

> > And, when it queries, mailclient should always be one of the choices, even
> > if sendmail exists.
>
> Yes, of course.  After all, the whole issue that prompted this querying
> is that the presence of sendmail is not sufficient to guarantee that
> sendmail can be used.

I'm glad you agree.  Lars seemed to have something else in mind.  (See 
the quote from him at the top of this mail.)  He proposed only offering 
emacsclient as an option on systems that don't have sendmail.

Ken