Variable: mail-interactive

mail-interactive is a customizable variable defined in sendmail.el.gz.

Value

t

Documentation

Non-nil means when sending a message wait for and display errors.

Otherwise, let mailer send back a message to report errors.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 23.1.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 23.2.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/mail/sendmail.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defcustom mail-interactive t
  ;; We used to use a default of nil rather than t, but nowadays it is very
  ;; common for sendmail to be misconfigured, so one cannot rely on the
  ;; bounce message to be delivered anywhere, least of all to the
  ;; user's mailbox.
  "Non-nil means when sending a message wait for and display errors.
Otherwise, let mailer send back a message to report errors."
  :type 'boolean
  :version "23.1")			; changed from nil to t