Re: emacs and smtpmail

[John Paul Wallington]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> FWIW, I was tripped by this as well, back when I started using
> smtpmail.  The documentation should be clearer on the type of the
> value, IMHO: it currently could be interpreted as if "25" is allowed,
> and will be magically converted to a number:
>
>       The variable `smtpmail-smtp-service' controls the port on the
>     server to contact.  It is either a string, in which case it will be
>     translated into an integer using system calls, or an integer.

Harry says that specifying a port number as a string worked under
XEmacs.  Do you think it would be a good idea to handle strings
representing an integer in `make-network-process' ?  Alternatively, we
could add such support as a special case to the smtpmail library
instead.