reopen 114849
reassign 114849 emacs24
found 114849 1:27.1+1-3.1
thanks
I used the same steps to reproduce as in October 2014:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=114849#134
I started with a blank HOME directory, and I had to tell emacs to use
"transport".
I saw this:
t.24009:execve("/usr/sbin/sendmail", ["/usr/sbin/sendmail", "-oi", "-oep",
"-odi", "-t"], 0x7ffd88982e40 /* 31 vars */) = 0
The effect of -odi is that emacs will wait for a delivery attempt,
which is not desirable. The correct option is -odb.
The effect of -oep is that message sending will fail interactively in
emacs *even if* the message was queued and a bounce was generated.
The correct option is -oee.
I have also verified (by copying /bin/false over the exim binary) that
mail is no longer lost in the default configuration. I think this is
due to the change to the default value of mail-interactive, which,
misleadingly, also controls[1] whether emacs cares about failure of
the sendmail program.
Ian.
[1] At least, it did in 2014.
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