I just sent a bug report about "mailx" being the default mailer,
before
I looked at bug.report() carefully and saw that it checked
"/usr/ucb/mail", and "Mail" as well as "mailx". I
guess I had had the
problem with this in a previous version.
Would it be clearer to have .Options$mailer be a vector or list of
alternate mailers that were checked in turn, rather than having them
hard-wired into bug.report()?
(e.g., .Options$mailer <-
c("mailx","Mail","/usr/ucb/mail")
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>>>>> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:48:11 -0500 (EST), >>>>> Ben Bolker (BB) wrote:BB> I just sent a bug report about "mailx" being the default mailer, before BB> I looked at bug.report() carefully and saw that it checked BB> "/usr/ucb/mail", and "Mail" as well as "mailx". I guess I had had the BB> problem with this in a previous version. BB> Would it be clearer to have .Options$mailer be a vector or list of BB> alternate mailers that were checked in turn, rather than having them BB> hard-wired into bug.report()? BB> (e.g., .Options$mailer <- c("mailx","Mail","/usr/ucb/mail") OK, my previous email was too fast :-) hmm, the mailer option is more intended to be a ``concept of mailing'' rather than a program by itself (we just named all options as the programs as this is the easiest things to remember) ... but gnudoit doeas something conceptually different because it opens an emacs mail buffer and not simply a temp file ... I don't like the idea of having the above too flexible because there will definetely be people doing something like bug.report(mailer="netscape") and complain that it is not working ... .f -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
``oops on my side'', I forgot to ask the crucial question: which mailer is available on your system that could be used? again, "mail" (without a path like in "/usr/ucb/mail" is not an option as that fails on some other unixes. .f -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._