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

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 41096 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41096: message-sendmail-f-is-evil has hard to understand
 docstring
Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 13:37:55 -0400

The first sentence seems clear to me. If you are using sendmail to send
mail, and don't want Emacs to pass the "-f" option to sendmail, set this
non-nil. If you want to know what the -f option does, see man sendmail.
If you aren't using sendmail to send mail, ignore it.

(The evil part is a 20+ year old joke. Perhaps you want to rename it to
a prosaic message-sendmail-specify-envelope-from.)
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