Florian Beck wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
<lennart.borgman gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Florian Beck wrote:
>>> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
<lennart.borgmangmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Florian Beck wrote:
>
>>>>> If I send a bug with
>>>>>
>>>>> emacs -Q
>>>>> M-x report-emacs-bug
>>>>>
>>>>> emacs trys to use sendmail-user-agent
by default.
>>>>>
>>>>> This doesn't work, which is no surprise
because I haven't even installed
>>>>> sendmail.
>>>>>
>>>>> What *is* a problem is that there is no
indication that sending the
>>>>> message failed. Emacs even displays
Sending…done.
>
>>> Also, I'm not looking for a workaround. (After
I set mail-user-agent to
>>> gnus-user-agent everything is fine.) I'm
reporting that on systems
>>> without sendmail bug reports likely disappear
without trace.
>> What I meant is that we should not require users to
use any special
>> mail agent to send bug reports. If they just have a
system mail client
>> set up it should work by using that.
>>
>> Perhaps you did not have a system mail client set
up?
>
> Not that I know of. I never needed to and I would not
know how to set
> it up. As I said, now that I know about the problem, it
is easy for me
> to fix.
>
> Look, if you think my setup is bizzare, please ignore
my report.
No, I just wanted to be sure about what could be done.
From what you have told us it looks like when
- there is no way for Emacs to send the bug report itself
- and there is no system mail client that can be used
then Emacs pretends it still has sent the message. That is
of course a
bug that should be removed if it is possible.
Though I am not at all sure what is happening on your
system. On my w32
system mail-user-agent is 'sendmail-user-agent. However when
sending bug
reports `mailclient-send-it' is used to send the message.
You said you know how to fix it. Do you mean you have a
solution for how
to fix this bug in Emacs? Otherwise could you check what is
happening
when you try to send a bug report? Is `mailclient-send-it'
called?
> But I don't
> think it is. I installed Ubuntu and used gnus to talk
to my pop server. I
> didn't configure sendmail or a system mail client or
`mail-user-agent'
> because everything worked – until after more then a
year I realised that
> emacs bug reports were not delived, despite the message
»Sending…done«.
>
>
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