Bug#397757: emacs21: Debian fix for message-sendmail-f-is-evil is wrong

2009-10-19 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello!

I was also hit by this issue, and I agree to the reasoning in the
previous (years-old) reports to simply drop this patch.  This also
affects emacs22, as well as emacs23 packages -- should separate reports
be filed for these?


Regards,
 Thomas



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Bug#397757: emacs21: Debian fix for message-sendmail-f-is-evil is wrong

2006-11-09 Thread Artem Chuprina
Package: emacs21
Version: 21.4a-6.2
Severity: normal

from /usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/gnus/message.el

;; message-sendmail-f-is-evil is nil here in the upstream source, but
;; sendmail works right under Debian Linux, so we want t. [was
;; orignally reported for emacs 19 as debian#7051]
(defcustom message-sendmail-f-is-evil t
  *Non-nil means don't add \-f username\ to the sendmail command line.
Doing so would be even more evil than leaving it out.
Under Debian/GNU/Linux, sendmail works right, so it should be safe for
this to be set to true.

This is a wrong argument.  When -f is evil, an administrator can forbid
it at MTA level (and must do so because his users can use other tools).
But those who are trusted for -f should be able to send from addresses
they want without several initial faults.  This variable is intended to
be set true only for those version of sendmail which work WRONG.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R)

Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
ii  emacs21-bin-common  21.4a-6.2The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii  libc6   2.3.6.ds1-4  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libice6 1:1.0.1-2X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62   6b-13The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libncurses5 5.5-3Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpng12-0  1.2.8rel-5.2 PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6  1:1.0.1-3X11 Session Management library
ii  libtiff43.8.2-6  Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libungif4g  4.1.4-4  shared library for GIF images
ii  libx11-62:1.0.0-9X11 client-side library
ii  libxext61:1.0.1-2X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxpm4 1:3.5.5-2X11 pixmap library
ii  libxt6  1:1.0.2-2X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xaw3dg  1.5+E-14 Xaw3d widget set
ii  zlib1g  1:1.2.3-13   compression library - runtime

emacs21 recommends no packages.

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