Re: Default of message-send-mail-function

On Wed, Oct 31 2007, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> Below is a patch (with an earlier version of the
function
>> `message-send-mail-function').  I will look at the
old messages
>> tomorrow.  Unless there's a better suggestion, I'll
install something
>> alone these lines.
>
> How 'bout initializing those vars to nil and then at
the use-point
> fallback to a heuristic that first tries mailclient,
then sendmail,
> then smtpmail (or some other order)?

There's also `message-send-mail-real-function' used in
several files
(gnus-agent.el, gnus-soup.el, ...).  Sounds like work.
But if you'd like to implement it, please go ahead. 

> Better yet: turn this var into a list of functions that
are tried in turn.
> This would make it possible to deal with the problem of
window-system which
> is not a constant any more.

IIRC `window-system' was dropped later in the thread.

Bye, Reiner.
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