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25.1; report-emacs-bug can't send mail due to missing 'w3'

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From: frederik <at> ofb.net
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.1; report-emacs-bug can't send mail due to missing 'w3'
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:23:07 -0800

I tried to report a bug using "report-emacs-bug". Emacs asked for a
method for delivering mail and I typed "mail" which it completed to
"mail client". But when I tried to send the bug, it complained that "w3"
was missing:

browse-url-w3: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, w3

I have a working "mail" command which I had understood to be somewhat
standard on Unix, so I had wanted to send the report via this method.
Thank you.


In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.5)
 of 2016-12-23 built on juergen
Configured using:
 'configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft
 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe
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Message #8 received at 25820 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: frederik <at> ofb.net
Cc: 25820 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25820: 25.1;
 report-emacs-bug can't send mail due to missing 'w3'
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 21:36:13 -0500

frederik <at> ofb.net wrote:

> I tried to report a bug using "report-emacs-bug". Emacs asked for a
> method for delivering mail and I typed "mail" which it completed to
> "mail client".
[...]
> I have a working "mail" command which I had understood to be somewhat
> standard on Unix, so I had wanted to send the report via this method.

I can sort of perhaps see why you would choose "mail client" wanting to
get such a result, but you want "sendmail" instead.

> But when I tried to send the bug, it complained that "w3" was missing:
>
> browse-url-w3: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, w3

The only way I can see that this can happen is if you have customized
browse-url-browser-function to browse-url-w3, and don't have the w3
library installed. So please tell us what 

C-h v browse-url-browser-function RET

says for you. If it does say browse-url-w3, then that's a bug in your
configuration.

Message #11 received at 25820 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: frederik <at> ofb.net
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25820 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25820: 25.1; report-emacs-bug can't send mail due to missing
 'w3'
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:58:46 -0800

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 09:36:13PM -0500, Glenn Morris wrote:
> frederik <at> ofb.net wrote:
> 
> > I tried to report a bug using "report-emacs-bug". Emacs asked for a
> > method for delivering mail and I typed "mail" which it completed to
> > "mail client".
> [...]
> > I have a working "mail" command which I had understood to be somewhat
> > standard on Unix, so I had wanted to send the report via this method.
> 
> I can sort of perhaps see why you would choose "mail client" wanting to
> get such a result, but you want "sendmail" instead.
> 
> > But when I tried to send the bug, it complained that "w3" was missing:
> >
> > browse-url-w3: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, w3
> 
> The only way I can see that this can happen is if you have customized
> browse-url-browser-function to browse-url-w3, and don't have the w3
> library installed. So please tell us what 
> 
> C-h v browse-url-browser-function RET
> 
> says for you. If it does say browse-url-w3, then that's a bug in your
> configuration.

Thank you. Yes browse-url-browser-function was set to browse-url-w3 in
my ~/.emacs.

Thank you for telling me which send-mail-function I want.

It would be nice to have things like this work "out of the box", but
maybe most GNU/Linux are not set up to have a working 'mail' function
anyway. Anyway, thanks for looking at the bug report.

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