From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62293 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus / message-send-mail-with-mailclient [patch] Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:36:27 +0200 Message-ID: References: <059BF802-B4EB-433E-AF78-024107CD7E16@gmail.com> <553F677F-B2E1-42F3-8DBC-96734109EBA2@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142678231 1981 80.91.229.2 (18 Mar 2006 10:37:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:37:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 18 11:37:09 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKYnw-0005KK-P7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:37:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKYnw-0003rZ-5U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:37:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FKYnh-0003rJ-Cb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:36:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FKYnf-0003r4-G5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:36:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKYnf-0003r1-Cs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:36:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FKYsk-0004F6-BA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:42:02 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-248-61.inter.net.il [84.228.248.61]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DTU12468 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:36:28 +0200 (IST) Original-To: David Reitter , ding@gnus.org In-reply-to: (message from Reiner Steib on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:10:44 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51797 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62293 Archived-At: > From: Reiner Steib > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:10:44 +0100 > > How about the following? > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (defun message-send-mail-function () > "Return suitable value for the variable `message-send-mail-function'." > (cond ((and sendmail-program > (executable-find sendmail-program)) > 'message-send-mail-with-sendmail) > ((and (locate-library "smtpmail") > (require 'smtpmail) > smtpmail-default-smtp-server) > 'message-smtpmail-send-it) > ((locate-library "mailclient") > 'message-send-mail-with-mailclient) > (t > (lambda () > (error "Don't know how to send mail. Please customize `message-send-mail-function'."))))) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- This is good, but I think using smtpmail by default is not the best idea: it requires manual setup (at the very least, the SMTP server address). So I think mailclient should be used in preference to smtpmail.