GNU bug report logs - #34992
26.1; message-send-mail-with-mailclient mangles MIME messages

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>

Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.1

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: david <at> tethera.net, 34992 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34992: 26.1; message-send-mail-with-mailclient mangles MIME messages
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 11:44:17 -0400

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  > One possibility would be for message-mode to refuse to add attachments
  > when message-send-mail-function is set up to use the system mail
  > client.  The user should be told to attach using the mail client
  > facilities instead.

That would be very inconvenient.

It might also be impossible to do that.  When Emacs uses the system
mail client, doesn't it normally run that client in a noninteractive
way?

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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