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mail-interactive should be default `t'

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From: Daniel Jacobson
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1991 18:09
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[repost (+ a 50% bonus of words of wisdom below) due to lost stuff on
prep.ai.mit.edu]

mail-interactive should be t, not nil, as default.  Users might not
notice that 1/10 of their mail might be missaddressed, etc.
(Especially with fakemail users.)  Nothing's worse than that
"it's-actually-been-lottery-mail-for-the-last-week,-surprise!"
feeling.


Documentation:
*Non-nil means when sending a message wait for and display errors.
nil means let mailer mail back a message to report errors.

and who says that the mailer will mail any errors back on system XYZ?

Anyway, I assume years of smooth mail delivery lulled emacs authors
into sacrificing safety for an extra second of speed.

Anyway, let the pros set it to nil, let the shmoes and the joes have
it default to t.
-- 
Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM  Naperville IL USA  +1 708 979 6364
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Subject: mail-interactive should be default `t'
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