Re: Sending attachments

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

    As has been pointed out, message-mode has more features than mail-mode.
    Even if we wanted to bring mail-mode up to par, that would turn it into
    something just as complex,

If "par" means all the same features, nobody wants to do that.  It is not
necessary or useful.

What I want to do is install Etach.  Specifically, the part of Etach
that creates mime attachments.  This would provide the facility of
sending attachments in Mail mode, but without any actual change to
sendmail.el.

There may be a few other features that it would be nice to provide in
Mail mode, and some of them might involve adding some code in that file.
But this would not involve anything like the complexity of Message mode.

Etach attachment is a modular feature which does not directly interact
with the code in sendmail.el.  Users could load it or not.

message.el forces the loading of many other packages (I sent the list
before).  So its effective complexity includes all of them.  It is
tied in with Gnus, and can't be maintained on its own.  Mail mode is nice
and simple, and I will maintain it myself if you don't want to.