#912570 emacs24-common: sending mail with agent (sendmail-send-it) misbehaves. A fix is upstream.

Package:
emacs24-common
Source:
emacs24
Submitter:
Dominic Sweetman
Date:
2023-04-26 09:42:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
#912570#5
Date:
2018-11-01 12:18:02 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

     Newly upgraded system now running emacs 24.5.1.

     After sending mail through the exim (aliased to sendmail) route,
     an error occurred and the used sent-mail buffer remained on
     screen (though the mail was in fact delivered).

     A debug trace showed that sendmail-send-it was invoking
     switch-to-buffer-other-window with a zero rather than nil argument.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

     In github, specifically at

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/d9eff02736c975dc5035e02249ff17c8a068d203/lisp/mail/sendmail.el

     is a snapshot of sendmail.el dated 30mar15 which was described as
     fixing something like this bug.  I grabbed a copy of this version
     and installed it in the local lisp directory.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

     It now works ok.
#912570#10
Date:
2018-11-01 12:25:58 UTC
From:
To:
Dominic Sweetman <dom@carolanddom.net> writes:

For any problems with emacs24, please at least try duplicating them with
emacs25, which is also in stable.

d
#912570#15
Date:
2018-11-01 17:06:06 UTC
From:
To:
David Bremner (bremner@debian.org) writes: