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30.0.50; [PATCH] smtpmail-send-it split

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Message #112 received at 63311 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 63311 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63311: 30.0.50; [PATCH] smtpmail-send-it split
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 21:55:49 +0100

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

>> If it is dead and (thread-last-error) returns nil maybe we can conclude
>> that everything went well.  But if (thread-last-error) returns a
>> message, it could be message from any other Emacs thread: what to do in
>> such case?
>
> Display a message about the error.

I mean, the last error message could come from another thread not
related in anyway to mail sending.  No?

>> Or worse: the thread is dead, (thread-last-error) returns
>> nil... but it was cleared from another part of Emacs.
>
> This means it exited successfully.  We could also maintain a data
> structure where successfully-exiting threads will leave their success
> status together with some id of the message they sent -- unlike a
> thread that dies abruptly due to an error, a successful thread can
> store the information in the data structure before exiting.

Yes why not but then I'd have to modify internals of 'message-send':
something I thought I could escape.
-- 
Manuel Giraud

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