Re: send-mail-function initialized in ldefs-boot (using window-system)

[Luc Teirlinck]

David Reitter wrote:  

   The default value for send-mail-function is supposed to be different  
   depending on the system. This doesn't work, at least not on Darwin,  
   where it is supposed
   Currently, we have (lisp/mail/sendmail.el):

   ;;;###autoload
   (defcustom send-mail-function
      (if (and window-system (memq system-type '(darwin windows-nt)))
          'mailclient-send-it
        'sendmail-send-it)

   This is included in ldefs-boot.el / loaddefs.el and is loaded before  
   dumping.
   At that time, window-system is nil, of course, and the default is set  
   prematurely.

   I'm not sure what the right solution for this is.

One thing you could try is to add:

(custom-reevaluate-setting 'send-mail-function)

in startup.el, before the loading of the user's init file.  (For
instance, right after the custom-reevaluate-setting for
file-shadow-mode will do.)  `window-system' should be correctly defined
there.

Sincerely,

Luc.