Avoiding error about undefined function bbdb-insinuate-sendmail

Avoiding error about undefined function bbdb-insinuate-sendmail

[Steinar Bang]

When I switched to the MELPA version of bbdb, I've gotten the message
 run-hooks: Autoloading failed to define function bbdb-insinuate-sendmail
every time I started composing the message.

In addition to the error message, the following annoying things were
happening: 
 - the cursor was been positioned to the far right of the "To" line
   (overlapping the "T")
 - when forwarding messages, the forwarded message wasn't inserted into
   the message composition buffer
 - when replying to a message, the quoted message was b0rked

What I did was to change the value of gnus-use-sendmail from t to nil (I
haven't used sendmail to send messages from Gnus for,... like,
ages...!):
 https://github.com/steinarb/gnus-patches/commit/6adfc5d6e18800b2862a23160f83ba14623cc648

To apply the change:
 git checkout master
 git pull
 git remote add sb-patches https://github.com/steinarb/gnus-patches.git
 git fetch sb-patches
 git merge sb-patches/avoid-error-message-about-undefined-function-bbdb-insinuate-sendmail

...or just change the "t" to a "nil"... whatever seems most appropriate...

Re: Avoiding error about undefined function bbdb-insinuate-sendmail

[Steinar Bang]

Note that even with this fix in place, there are strange things
happening to the windows setup after doing an M-TAB to expand an email
address.

But that fix is for another day.  I just needed to be able to forward
messages. 

Re: Avoiding error about undefined function bbdb-insinuate-sendmail

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:55:20 +0200, Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> said:

> When I switched to the MELPA version of bbdb, I've gotten the message
>  run-hooks: Autoloading failed to define function bbdb-insinuate-sendmail
> every time I started composing the message.

I have been running my own branch with merges from origin/master since
then, and the only thing that keeps me from being on master, is this
little change:

sb@edwards:~/git/gnus$ git diff origin/master
diff --git a/lisp/gnus-setup.el b/lisp/gnus-setup.el
index c8560e3..7ef8dc5 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus-setup.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus-setup.el
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
   "Set this if you want to use MH-E for mail reading.")
 (defvar gnus-use-rmail nil
   "Set this if you want to use RMAIL for mail reading.")
-(defvar gnus-use-sendmail t
+(defvar gnus-use-sendmail nil
   "Set this if you want to use SENDMAIL for mail reading.")
 (defvar gnus-use-vm nil
   "Set this if you want to use the VM package for mail reading.")

I recently did a detour on master, and the "run-hooks: Autoloading
failed to define function bbdb-insinuate-sendmail" message in the
minibuffer, when replying to messages, was back.

Could I get this setting swapped in master, please?

(I don't even know what it means to use SENDMAIL for mail reading...?
Using it for sending, I could understand, but for reading...)

Re: Avoiding error about undefined function bbdb-insinuate-sendmail

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

> (I don't even know what it means to use SENDMAIL for mail reading...?
> Using it for sending, I could understand, but for reading...)

Yeah, that seems nonsensical.  I've now applied your patch.

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