Package: emacs22-el
Version: 22.0.99+1-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/emacs/22.0.99/lisp/mail/sendmail.el.gz
As I communicate mail over my ISP's mail host, I don't need a MTA and
therefore removed exim4. This resulted in the following error when
starting gnus v5.11 in emacs22:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "/usr/bin/mail is not executable")
signal(error ("/usr/bin/mail is not executable"))
error("/usr/bin/mail is not executable")
(if (not (file-executable-p "/usr/bin/mail")) (error "/usr/bin/mail is not
executable"))
(cond ((file-exists-p "/usr/sbin/sendmail") "/usr/sbin/sendmail")
((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/sendmail") "/usr/lib/sendmail") ((file-exists-p
"/usr/ucblib/sendmail") "/usr/ucblib/sendmail") (t (if ... ...) "fakemail"))
eval((cond ((file-exists-p "/usr/sbin/sendmail") "/usr/sbin/sendmail")
((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/sendmail") "/usr/lib/sendmail") ((file-exists-p
"/usr/ucblib/sendmail") "/usr/ucblib/sendmail") (t (if ... ...) "fakemail")))
custom-initialize-reset(sendmail-program (cond ((file-exists-p
"/usr/sbin/sendmail") "/usr/sbin/sendmail") ((file-exists-p
"/usr/lib/sendmail") "/usr/lib/sendmail") ((file-exists-p
"/usr/ucblib/sendmail") "/usr/ucblib/sendmail") (t (if ... ...) "fakemail")))
custom-declare-variable(sendmail-program (cond ((file-exists-p
"/usr/sbin/sendmail") "/usr/sbin/sendmail") ((file-exists-p
"/usr/lib/sendmail") "/usr/lib/sendmail") ((file-exists-p
"/usr/ucblib/sendmail") "/usr/ucblib/sendmail") (t (if ... ...) "fakemail"))
"Program used to send messages." :group mail :type file)
(defcustom sendmail-program (cond (... "/usr/sbin/sendmail") (...
"/usr/lib/sendmail") (... "/usr/ucblib/sendmail") (t ... "fakemail")) "Program
used to send messages." :group (quote mail) :type (quote file))
eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*<2>> nil
"/usr/share/emacs/22.0.99/lisp/mail/sendmail.el.gz" nil t) ; Reading at buffer
position 2062
load-with-code-conversion("/usr/share/emacs/22.0.99/lisp/mail/sendmail.el.gz"
"/usr/share/emacs/22.0.99/lisp/mail/sendmail.el.gz" nil t)
require(sendmail)
byte-code("ÀÁ!ÂÃÄ\"ÂÅÄ\"ÂÆÇ\"ÂÈÉ\"ÂÊÉ\"ÂËÌ\"ÂÍÎ\"ÂÏÎ\"ÂÐÎ\"ÑÒÓÔÕÖ%"
[require sendmail autoload starttls-open-stream "starttls" starttls-negotiate
mail-strip-quoted-names "mail-utils" message-make-date "message"
message-make-message-id rfc2104-hash "rfc2104" netrc-parse "netrc"
netrc-machine netrc-get custom-declare-group smtpmail nil "SMTP protocol for
sending mail." :group mail] 6)
load("smtpmail")
load-library("smtpmail")
eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "/home/ralle/.gnus" nil t) ; Reading at
buffer position 4535
load-with-code-conversion("/home/ralle/.gnus" "/home/ralle/.gnus" nil t)
load("~/.gnus" nil t)
gnus-read-init-file()
gnus-1(nil nil nil)
gnus(nil)
call-interactively(gnus)
I use (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) in my
.gnus. Smtpmail.el itself requires sendmail.el, which caused the error
at defcustom of sendmail-program as I haven't got sendmail or
/usr/bin/mail on my system:
(defcustom sendmail-program
(cond
((file-exists-p "/usr/sbin/sendmail") "/usr/sbin/sendmail")
((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/sendmail") "/usr/lib/sendmail")
((file-exists-p "/usr/ucblib/sendmail") "/usr/ucblib/sendmail")
(t
(if (not (file-executable-p "/usr/bin/mail"))
(error "/usr/bin/mail is not executable"))
"fakemail")) ;In ../etc, to interface to /bin/mail.
"Program used to send messages."
:group 'mail
:type 'file)
There are two lines of code I couldn't find in any version on
<http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/emacs/lisp/mail/sendmail.el?view=log>:
(if (not (file-executable-p "/usr/bin/mail"))
(error "/usr/bin/mail is not executable"))
So, I assume this was modified by Debian. I removed both lines, which
works for me. I'm wondering about this error message. If necessary,
you might change it also to:
(if (not (file-executable-p "/usr/bin/mail"))
(message "/usr/bin/mail is not executable"))
This gives the user the information without interrupting loading
gnus. I hope, this is helpful.
Cheers Ralf
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