[85] in athena10
Re: Sending mail from emacs (was Re: /svn/athena r22750 -
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Sat Feb 16 02:21:46 2008
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > Excellent, (setq sendmail-program "/usr/lib/debathena-msmtp") works
> > fine.
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 01:58 -0500, Tim Abbott wrote:
> We should remember to add a version of this to the Athena emacs site
> customizations whenever we get around to packaging that.
I think that we should instead get debathena-msmtp working sufficiently
well that we can install it as the default /usr/sbin/sendmail from a
package providing mail-transport-agent, so that all applications can
benefit from it with no extra configuration.
It is not quite there yet. One issue is trivial: sendmail doesn't have
-t by default, so that should be factored out. This may solve the
problem geofft reported about bouncing messages, though the comments in
pine's (and alpine's) default configuration still say that the
sendmail-path must "operate in the style of sendmail's '-t' option"--so
maybe there's an incompatibility between msmtp -t and sendmail -t that
we need to figure out.
It should also be made to fall back reasonably in the absence of valid
Kerberos tickets.
Anders
