Re: 23.0.60; emacs-report-bug fails silently

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Florian Beck wrote:
> > Otherwise could you check what is happening when you try to send a bug
> > report? Is `mailclient-send-it' called?
>
> It is not. It is only called on darwin and windows-nt. From
> `send-mail-function':
>
>   (if (and window-system (memq system-type '(darwin windows-nt)))
>       'mailclient-send-it
>     'sendmail-send-it)
>
> Now, I think this bug bites anyone who
> - is not on darwin/windows-nt (where mailclient-send-it might be able to 
> deliver)
> - has not configured sendmail and
> - has not configured mail-user-agent (or reports from emacs -Q)
>
> Am I wrong?

No, I think you are right.

It looks like the logic have to be revised a bit. Perhaps in addition to 
the above it is necessary to try and send a mail and check the result?