Re: Default of send-mail-function

[Jason Rumney]

Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:24:57 +0100, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> said: 
>
>   
> > David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> >     
> > > On vaguely recent desktops following freedesktop.org , "xdg-email"
> > > should be a command that will open and populate a new mail in the
> > > user's "preferred email composer".
> > >
> > > xdg-email --subject foo --body bar address@hidden
> > >
> > > Emacs presumably could/should try to use that on gnu/linux...
> > >
> > > http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/XdgUtils> http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/EmailConfig>   
> > >       
>
>   
> > How about a new `unconfigured-send-it', for use as the default
> > send-mail-function', which checks for the existence of xdg-email, and
> > uses it if found. If not available, it could fall back on
> > sendmail-send-it'. Alternately we could modify `mailclient-send-it' to
> > use xdg-email when it exists rather than browse-url (which will only
> > work if browse-url-browser-function is set to an external program that
> > recognizes mailto: URLs).
> >     
>
>         I have xdg-email configured to use this as the preferred mail
>  client:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>   emacsclient -s gnus -c \
>     -e "(progn (gnus-url-mailto \"$url\") (set-buffer-modified-p nil))"
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>         Would your proposal not result in a loop?
>   

Yes, that can currently happen with the default on Windows and Mac too. 
But the fact that obviously experienced users who have set Emacs as 
their default mail client end up with a loop if they don't change the 
default configuration should not prevent us from making a change that 
benefits less experienced users who currently experience a broken mail 
configuration and may not have the knowledge to configure their way out 
of it.