Re: How does gnus talk to sendmail

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Dave Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:

> I use XEmacs, not GNU Emacs, so that may be the difference.

It is.  XEmacs defines smtpmail-program not in the mail-lib module,
but in the core XEmacs in paths.el, as follows:

(defconst sendmail-program nil
  "Program used to send messages.")

and sendmail.el does:

	(program (if (boundp 'sendmail-program)
		     sendmail-program
		   "/usr/lib/sendmail"))

Ideally, the paths.el declaration should be removed, but maybe
sendmail-program has to be declared for other core packages to work.

In any case, it is an XEmacs problem, and should be reported to them.
The XEmacs mail-lib package maintainer can help to improve the XEmacs
sendmail.el, but that will probably not help unless core XEmacs is
improved too.

/Simon