(mail-interactive): Change default.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 7e3d537e6ec..f0540dab168 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-06-06  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
+
+        * mail/sendmail.el (mail-interactive): Change default.
+
 2008-06-05  John Paul Wallington  <jpw@pobox.com>
 
         * bindings.el (completion-ignored-extensions):
diff --git a/lisp/mail/sendmail.el b/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
index 410ce4daef1..51739656112 100644
--- a/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
@@ -114,7 +114,11 @@ so you can remove or alter the BCC field to override the default."
   :group 'sendmail)
 
 ;;;###autoload
-(defcustom mail-interactive nil
+(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.
 nil means let mailer mail back a message to report errors."
   :type 'boolean