Variable: send-mail-function

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

Value

sendmail-query-once

Documentation

Function to call to send the current buffer as mail.

The headers should be delimited by a line which is not a valid RFC 822 (or later) 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(var)/message-send-mail-function(fun) for use with the Message package.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 24.1.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 24.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/mail/sendmail.el.gz
;; Useful to set in site-init.el
;;;###autoload
(defcustom send-mail-function
  ;; Assume smtpmail is the preferred choice if it's already configured.
  (if (and (boundp 'smtpmail-smtp-server)
           smtpmail-smtp-server)
      #'smtpmail-send-it #'sendmail-query-once)
  "Function to call to send the current buffer as mail.
The headers should be delimited by a line which is
not a valid RFC 822 (or later) 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 :doc "Use the Sendmail package." sendmail-send-it)
                (function-item :doc "Query once for which function to use (and remember it)." sendmail-query-once)
                (function-item :doc "Use SMTPmail package." smtpmail-send-it)
                (function-item :doc "Use Feedmail package." feedmail-send-it)
                (function-item :doc "Use the system mail client." mailclient-send-it)
                (function :tag "Custom function."))
  :version "24.1")