Recent cvs updates have ended up leaving send-mail-function set to nil while running on the linux console.
Evaluating the form that is in the defcustom does yield the right result, so I suspect some kind of bizarre autoloading bug. (defcustom send-mail-function (if (and window-system (memq system-type '(darwin windows-nt))) 'mailclient-send-it 'sendmail-send-it) "Function to call to send the current buffer as mail. The headers should be delimited by a line which is not a valid RFC822 header or continuation line, that matches the variable `mail-header-separator'. This is used by the default mail-sending commands. See also `message-send-mail-function' for use with the Message package." :type '(radio (function-item sendmail-send-it :tag "Use Sendmail package") (function-item smtpmail-send-it :tag "Use SMTPmail package") (function-item feedmail-send-it :tag "Use Feedmail package") (function-item mailclient-send-it :tag "Use Mailclient package") function) :group 'sendmail) -- Best Regards, --raman Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ AIM: emacspeak GTalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc Google: tv+raman _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug