Re: buggy defcustom in sendmail.el

[Luc Teirlinck]

T. V. Raman wrote:

   Recent cvs updates have ended up leaving 
   send-mail-function set to nil while running on the linux console.

   Evaluating the form that is in the defcustom does yield the right
   result, so I suspect some kind of bizarre autoloading bug.

I can not reproduce this.  On the Linux console, send-mail-function is
sendmail-send-it for me.   However, if your loaddefs.el is not
properly updated, then send-mail-function will indeed be nil.

Your loaddefs.el should contain:

(put (quote send-mail-function) (quote standard-value) (quote ((if
(and window-system (memq system-type (quote (darwin windows-nt))))
(quote mailclient-send-it) (quote sendmail-send-it)))))

Otherwise it is out of date.

To update loaddefs.el do:

  $ cd lisp
  $ make autoloads mh-autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs

or use `make-bootstrap'.

I believe that this should fix your problem.

Sincerely,

Luc.