GNU bug report logs - #41096
message-sendmail-f-is-evil has hard to understand docstring

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 15:34:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 41096 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 41096 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41096: message-sendmail-f-is-evil has hard to understand
 docstring
Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 21:28:24 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 20:05:40 +0200
> Cc: 41096 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> The thing is that I don't understand the docstring as a whole.  The
> first part is fine, but the joke confuses me and makes me wonder what
> I missed.

Here's one attempt to de-confuse it:

     Non-nil means don't add '-f username' to the sendmail command
     line.  Using that option would be even more evil than leaving
     it out.
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