Avoid silently losing mail via fakemail.
An attempt is made to avoid silently losing mail via fakemail.
This fix attempts to avoid a situation where Emacs can silently lose
mail. This can occur if sendmail.el (at least) falls back to
fakemail, and the underlying binary (MAIL_PROGRAM_NAME) that fakemail
is configured to use doesn't exist. Unless mail-interactive is true,
Emacs won't wait for the mailer and so won't know that fakemail
failed.
For now, Debian sets fakemail's MAIL_PROGRAM_NAME to /usr/bin/mail
(which is the correct value for Debian systems) rather than /bin/mail.
Debian also adjusts Emacs to test whether or not /usr/bin/mail exists
and is executable. If either of these tests fail, then
mail-interactive is set to t. That should ensure that a user will
actually see an error if they attempt to use the broken fakemail.
Note that Debian actually forces the MAIL_PROGRAM_NAME value to
/usr/bin/mail. The build will fail if any other value is specified.
This is done to ensure that MAIL_PROGRAM_NAME isn't accidentally set
to some other value during the build process. If this is undesirable
for some reason, just comment out avoid-fakemail-loss.diff in
debian/patches/series.
Author: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Added-by: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>