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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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: message-sendmail-f-is-evil has hard to understand docstring
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 17:33:25 +0200

I'm having some trouble parsing this documentation:

‘message-sendmail-f-is-evil’
     Non-‘nil’ means don’t add ‘-f username’ to the sendmail command
     line.  Doing so would be even more evil than leaving it out.

So when would I use it?  And what is evil, to have it set to nil or
non-nil or what?  Is there a double negation in there?

Could someone who knows what this is all about please consider
clarifying this documentation for mere mortals like me?  Thanks.  :-)

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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