Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Sorry, I did not intend to be argumentative.  The thread is just a bit
>> long and with many unrelated aspects mixed together.  As far as I can
>> tell the only interesting aspect of a "load .emacs" button is to setup
>> the mail system so that M-x report-emacs-bug works.  So it's the only
>> part of the thread that I'm focusing on.

> Just a question since I do not understand:

> I told earlier that on w32 this works because the bug reporter falls back to
> using the system mail program (as an example this in my case
> Thunderbird). Why can't this be done on other systems as well today?

Maybe this can be done, but AFAICT this hasn't been done yet.  I'm not
sure if there is such a thing as "the system mail program" under unix.
It used to be that `sendmail' did just that (tho it only took care of
sending the mail), but it can't be relied upon nowadays thanks to the
braindead measures taken against spam.


        Stefan