From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>
Cc: 55569@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55569: Improve documentation of mail-user-agent
Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 09:26:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v8ty6q1o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qwmks7a.fsf@cassou.me> (message from Damien Cassou on Sun, 22 May 2022 08:16:25 +0200)
> From: Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>
> Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 08:16:25 +0200
>
> diff --git a/doc/emacs/sending.texi b/doc/emacs/sending.texi
> index ea87e0a77b..221d2aa3dd 100644
> --- a/doc/emacs/sending.texi
> +++ b/doc/emacs/sending.texi
> @@ -667,7 +667,9 @@ Mail Methods
> customize the variable @code{mail-user-agent}. Currently, legitimate
> values include @code{message-user-agent} (Message mode)
> @code{sendmail-user-agent} (Mail mode), @code{gnus-user-agent}, and
> -@code{mh-e-user-agent}.
> +@code{mh-e-user-agent}. Additional options may be available; check
> +with the author of your mail user agent package for details. You may
> +also define another mail user agent using `define-mail-user-agent'.
Thanks, but what do you mean by "the author of your mail user agent
package"? This is an Emacs user manual, and I very much doubt that
Emacs users could figure out where and how to check that.
Can we provide more practical advice here how to check for those
additional options?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-22 6:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-22 6:16 bug#55569: Improve documentation of mail-user-agent Damien Cassou
2022-05-22 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-05-22 7:18 ` Damien Cassou
2022-05-22 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-22 7:48 ` Damien Cassou
2022-05-22 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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