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Article #99383Suggestion to make sendmail prompt the user before sending
From: Andrew Oram
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 1990 15:21
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 1990 15:21
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I've made trivial changes to mail-send-and-exit and mail-send in sendmail.el,
so that accidentally pressing /C-c/C-c or /C-c/C-c will not cause mail to be
sent. To ensure complete backward compatibility, I've even defined a flag.
Sending half-finished mail is even more irreversible (and potentially
embarrassing) than exiting emacs or gnus or doing various other things for
which you give a standard second-chance prompt. So I am asking you to
consider making the changes I've included below in future releases. Of
course, it would be easy for a user to redefine the functions in
mail-setup-hook, but we could save them the trouble.
Caveat: I'm the only one who's tested this, and I haven't tested for strange
errors that might abort mail-send.
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; User has to set in order to get new feature
(defconst mail-prompt-before-sending nil)
; Changed simply to check mail-send for return value and conditionally continue
(defun mail-send-and-exit (arg)
"Send message like mail-send, then, if no errors, exit
from mail buffer. Prefix arg means don't delete this window."
(interactive "P")
(if (mail-send)
(progn
(bury-buffer (current-buffer))
(if (and (not arg)
(not (one-window-p))
(save-excursion
(set-buffer (window-buffer (next-window (selected-window) 'not)))
(eq major-mode 'rmail-mode)))
(delete-window)
(switch-to-buffer (other-buffer (current-buffer)))))))
; Changed to prompt user and to return t or nil
(defun mail-send ()
"Send the message in the current buffer.
If mail-prompt-before-sending is non-nil, prompt
the user to make sure the mail should be sent.
Depending on user's reply, return t or nil so that
mail-send-and-exit knows whether or not to exit.
If mail-interactive is non-nil, wait for success indication
or error messages, and inform user.
Otherwise any failure is reported in a message back to
the user from the mailer."
(interactive)
(if (or (not mail-prompt-before-sending)
(y-or-n-p "Do you want to send the message now? "))
(progn
(message "Sending...")
(funcall send-mail-function)
(set-buffer-modified-p nil)
(delete-auto-save-file-if-necessary)
(message "Sending...done")
t)
(message "") ;Erase "Yes or No" question.
nil))
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,4b4af26f6989292d,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-09-18 08:21:13 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!westford.ccur.com!andyo From: andyo@westford.ccur.com (Andrew Oram) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Suggestion to make sendmail prompt the user before sending Message-ID: <9009181121.aa18198@nexus.westford.ccur.com> Date: 18 Sep 90 15:21:13 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 58 Posted: Tue Sep 18 16:21:13 1990