Re: Emacs 22 can't post: "Format specifier doesn't match argument type"

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:

> Appearently message-send-mail-with-sendmail doesn't work with the
> default exim4 installation.

> There is a /usr/sbin/sendmail that belongs to the exim4-daemon-light 

Looks like the possibility to use /usr/sbin/sendmail to send email is
disabled in the exim4 config of Ubuntu 8.04.

When I run /usr/sbin/sendmail from the command line, I get the following
output (presumably the same output that meets message-send-mail...?):

$ /usr/sbin/sendmail 
Exim is a Mail Transfer Agent. It is normally called by Mail User Agents,
not directly from a shell command line. Options and/or arguments control
what it does when called. For a list of options, see the Exim documentation.

There is no config that I can figure out to switch this capability on.
There are no diffs between the Ubuntu 7.10 config that looks like it
relates to this.

When running 
 sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
there seems to be no option to allow local delivery.

So I customized message-send-mail-function to have the value
message-smtpmail-send-it and customized the smtpmail-smtp-server
variable to have the value localhost.

And then it seemed to be working again.