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Re: emacs and smtpmail
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: emacs and smtpmail |
Date: |
Sun, 02 Jul 2006 00:47:11 +0300 |
> From: jpw@pobox.com (John Paul Wallington)
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 20:33:25 +0100
>
> > The variable `smtpmail-smtp-service' controls the port on the
> > server to contact. It is either a string, in which case it will be
> > translated into an integer using system calls, or an integer.
>
> Harry says that specifying a port number as a string worked under
> XEmacs. Do you think it would be a good idea to handle strings
> representing an integer in `make-network-process' ? Alternatively, we
> could add such support as a special case to the smtpmail library
> instead.
It's your call: either allow "25" or fix the docs to say that a
literal number cannot come in a string representation. I don't have
an opinion what's best, but perhaps asking on emacs-devel will bring
some.