Re: Emacs project mission (was Re: "If you're still seeing problems, please reopen." [

[Yuri Khan]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 19:30, Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Maybe some of the people who report bugs for other packages might
> > avoid reporting bugs for Emacs.  If so, could you ask them why they
> > avoid it?
>
> I encounter this issue regularly -- people have some issue with Emacs
> and I say (via email, irc, in person, even): "Well, that sounds like a
> bug.  You should report it with M-x report-emacs-bug".  But they don't,
> and my impression is that it seems scary.  The report seems to go into
> an official secret place or something?

It is not scary per se; for me, it just creates an impression that it
has no way of working.

It looks as if it’s going to send an email. But I know that, in order
to be able to send email, a program has to know the SMTP server
address, the user name, and the password, and I know I haven’t
provided these to Emacs. (Definitely not to ‘emacs -Q’ in any case.)
Therefore, I conclude that Emacs is not going to be able to send email
on its own.

I also understand that Emacs could use a system facility for sending
email if there was one; but I know I haven’t configured an MTA
locally, don’t want to, and ain’t going to. So I assume Emacs is not
going to be able to delegate sending the email to any other program.