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Re: emacs and smtpmail
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John Paul Wallington |
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Re: emacs and smtpmail |
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Sat, 01 Jul 2006 20:33:25 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> FWIW, I was tripped by this as well, back when I started using
> smtpmail. The documentation should be clearer on the type of the
> value, IMHO: it currently could be interpreted as if "25" is allowed,
> and will be magically converted to a number:
>
> 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.