Re: [PATCH] Fix MH-E mail composition with GNU Mailutils

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mike Kupfer <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 12:00:40 -0700
> 
> Currently, trying to compose a message using MH-E with Mailutils fails:
> no composition buffer is created, and the user gets an obscure error
> message about deleting a non-empty directory.  This has been broken for
> awhile (i.e., it's not a regression in 26.1), but the fix is pretty
> simple.  Is this okay for emacs-26?

Please at least explain the reason(s) for the problem.  How else can
we reason about the necessity and risk(s) of getting this into
emacs-26.

And shouldn't we invite the MH-E developers to this discussion?

Thanks.