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sendmail-program default is determined at compilation time
From: |
Toby Allsopp |
Subject: |
sendmail-program default is determined at compilation time |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:51:06 +1200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
It seems that the default for sendmail-program is determined at
(Emacs) compilation time, which means that if the situation is
different at run time (e.g. if Emacs was compiled on a different
machine, as is the case for binary packages for e.g. Debian) the
default could be inappropriate.
sendmail-program is defined in paths.el as:
(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 "fakemail")) ;In ../etc, to interface to /bin/mail.
"Program used to send messages."
:group 'mail
:type 'file)
My problem is that the default for the Debian emacs-snapshot package
version 20060824-1 is "fakemail" because the machine that builds it
doesn't have sendmail installed. I, however, do have
/usr/sbin/sendmail, but that isn't taken into account.
Is this the expected behaviour?
Toby.
- sendmail-program default is determined at compilation time,
Toby Allsopp <=