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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Message #20 received at 34992 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 34992 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34992: 26.1;
 message-send-mail-with-mailclient mangles MIME messages
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:16:45 -0300

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
>> 
>> 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?
>
> No, Emacs copies the message text into the system clipboard and tells
> the user to paste it from there into the mail client.

I think that's only the default on Windows. On my machines [1] it just
silently sends. This might depend on what the mailclient is; I have read
reports that thunderbird opens a window with the (MIME-encoded)
message. I imagine this depends on the setting of
"browse-url-mailto-function"; on my systems it is 'browse-url-mail,
which seems to be the default.

[1]: Various versions of Debian GNU/Linux
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