Re: How do I suppress mail sending via Thunderbird?

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 3/28/11 7:01 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I'm in the midst of migrating from XEmacs to GNU Emacs on my Mac.  My
> current stumbling block is sending mail.  I use VM to read mail.  Whenever
> I try to send a message from a buffer created by vm-mail it executes
> vm-mail-send-and-exit.  For some reason that pops open Thunderbird to send
> the message.
>
> Now I suppose this would be fine if I actually liked Thunderbird.  I use
> it only for work email, and curse it repeatedly, multiple times per day.
> In XEmacs I was using an older version of VM (8.0.2.something).  I
> installed the current version (8.1.93a) in GNU Emacs.  I dug into the
> source, but couldn't figure out how it passed off the message to T-Bird.
> How do I get VM to just send the dang message itself?

Try customizing the send-mail-client variable (it defaults to mailclient-send-it
on Mac OS X).

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA