Dominic Sweetman <d...@carolanddom.net> writes: > Package: emacs24-common > Version: 24.5+1-11+deb9u1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > Newly upgraded system now running emacs 24.5.1. > > After sending mail through the exim (aliased to sendmail) route, > an error occurred and the used sent-mail buffer remained on > screen (though the mail was in fact delivered). > > A debug trace showed that sendmail-send-it was invoking > switch-to-buffer-other-window with a zero rather than nil argument. > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > > In github, specifically at > > > https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/d9eff02736c975dc5035e02249ff17c8a068d203/lisp/mail/sendmail.el > > is a snapshot of sendmail.el dated 30mar15 which was described as > fixing something like this bug. I grabbed a copy of this version > and installed it in the local lisp directory. > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > It now works ok.
For any problems with emacs24, please at least try duplicating them with emacs25, which is also in stable. d
