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From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: message-mode is now default?
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:01:20 -0400
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Things that have now become broken because of this unannounced change,
and not fully thought through chance:

- any and all hooks and variable that one uses for mail are not
  working anymore, since message-mode is not compatible with
  mail-mode.  Causing massive breakage for anyone using mail-mode.

- message-mode does not use sendmail-function, causing once again
  breakage for anyone who wraps their mail around it.

message-mode is NOT backwards compatible with mail-mode, please change
it back to what it was.  This is a huge change, and should be
postponed for after the release, wit a proper discussion and poll.