Re: smtpmail.el: set-buffer-file-coding-system takes too many args

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> The version in contrib/ is synced from Emacs CVS:
>
> ,----[ contrib/README ]
> | sendmail.el
> | smtpmail.el
> | 
> | 	Copies of the corresponding files from the Emacs lisp/mail/
> | 	directory, to provide features (occasionally) needed by Gnus which
> | 	may not be provided by the versions of these files in older Emacs
> | 	distributions.
> `----
>
> IIRC, smtpmail.el is also included with XEmacs.  Simon, is
> `smtpmail.el' (from Emacs CVS) supposed to work with XEmacs without
> modifications?

No.  There are several modifications between XEmacs and Emacs
smtpmail.el, alas.

> If so `smtpmail.el' should probably not use the NOMODIFY argument or
> provide some compatibility code.

XEmacs users should use the smtpmail.el from mail-lib, there should be
no reason to use the Emacs CVS stuff (if there is, a bug report would
be most welcome!).

I installed the patch below, to hopefully clarify this.

2007-01-06  Simon Josefsson  <simon@josefsson.org>

	* README: Mention that smtpmail.el doesn't work on XEmacs.

--- README	15 Feb 2006 14:51:02 +0100	7.7
+++ README	06 Jan 2007 18:57:10 +0100	
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@
 	Copies of the corresponding files from the Emacs lisp/mail/
 	directory, to provide features (occasionally) needed by Gnus which
 	may not be provided by the versions of these files in older Emacs
-	distributions.
+	distributions.  XEmacs users should NOT use this, since it doesn't
+	work.  See the XEmacs mail-lib module instead.
 
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