From 7997a2f181ae0dc36726af0c8afbaf86595a8290 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?Gr=C3=A9goire=20Jadi?= <daimrod@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:25:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] * mail/sendmail.el (sendmail-send-it): Don't kill the error
 buffer on error

This makes debugging easier.
---
 lisp/ChangeLog        |  5 +++++
 lisp/mail/sendmail.el | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index aa4d0289ee5..290af08f765 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-08-12  Grégoire Jadi  <daimrod@gmail.com>
+
+	* mail/sendmail.el (sendmail-send-it): Don't kill the error buffer
+	if sending fails.  This makes debugging easier.
+
 2013-08-12  Juanma Barranquero  <lekktu@gmail.com>
 
 	* xml.el (xml-parse-tag-1): Use looking-at (this reverts change in
diff --git a/lisp/mail/sendmail.el b/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
index e1dee3295f2..4fdd75c68a6 100644
--- a/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
@@ -1114,6 +1114,7 @@ external program defined by `sendmail-program'."
   (let ((errbuf (if mail-interactive
 		    (generate-new-buffer " sendmail errors")
 		  0))
+        (error nil)
 	(tembuf (generate-new-buffer " sendmail temp"))
 	(multibyte enable-multibyte-characters)
 	(case-fold-search nil)
@@ -1278,10 +1279,13 @@ external program defined by `sendmail-program'."
 		     (exit-value (apply 'call-process-region args)))
 		(cond ((or (null exit-value) (eq 0 exit-value)))
 		      ((numberp exit-value)
+                       (setq error t)
 		       (error "Sending...failed with exit value %d" exit-value))
 		      ((stringp exit-value)
+                       (setq error t)
 		       (error "Sending...terminated by signal: %s" exit-value))
 		      (t
+                       (setq error t)
 		       (error "SENDMAIL-SEND-IT -- fall through: %S" exit-value))))
 	    (or fcc-was-found
 		(error "No recipients")))
@@ -1290,12 +1294,15 @@ external program defined by `sendmail-program'."
 		(goto-char (point-min))
 		(while (re-search-forward "\n\n* *" nil t)
 		  (replace-match "; "))
-		(if (not (zerop (buffer-size)))
-		    (error "Sending...failed to %s"
-			   (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max)))))))
+		(unless (zerop (buffer-size))
+                  (setq error t)
+                  (error "Sending...failed to %s"
+                         (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max)))))))
       (kill-buffer tembuf)
-      (if (bufferp errbuf)
-	  (kill-buffer errbuf)))))
+      (if (and (bufferp errbuf)
+               (not error))
+          (kill-buffer errbuf)
+        (switch-to-buffer-other-window errbuf)))))
 
 (autoload 'rmail-output-to-rmail-buffer "rmailout")
 
-- 
2.39.2