Subject: Re: bug#7469: 24.0.50; report-emacs-bug is broken again (on Windows)

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:29:15 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> Lars, what was the rationale for that change?

It was so that HTML rendered in Emacs would use Emacs to send the email,
instead of popping up a browser window.  Which often doesn't work, since
you need to have mail configured in your browser...

> It breaks report-emacs-bug, which uses the mailto: URLs.
> `browse-url-mail' simply uses Emacs to compose a mail message, which
> is of course useless when browse-url is called from mailclient.el
> because Emacs failed to find any better way of sending mail, and falls
> back to mailto:.

So report-emacs-bug tries to determine whether Emacs can send mail, and
if it can't, it tries to open a browser, in the hope that it knows how
to send mail?  In what situations does this occur?

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