Re: mime-compose.el and Debian

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Brendan Halpin wrote:
 > Phillip Lord <p.lord@cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
 >
 >
 >>>>>>>"Brendan" == Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin@ul.ie> writes:
 >>
 >>  Brendan> I use mime-compose.el to attach files to mail in mail-mode,
 >>  Brendan> and was caught out when I upgraded to the latest Debian
 >>  Brendan> because mime-compose is hard-wired to use mmencode, whereas
 >>  Brendan> Debian offers mimencode instead.
 >>
 >>  Brendan> Is mime-compose obsolete, and if so what should I be using
 >>  Brendan> to compose mime mail?
 >>
 >>
 >>I tend to use Gnus these days, which has full read/write support for
 >>mime. Have you tried message-mode (rather than mail-mode). MML (the
 >>mime support) should just work.
 >
 >
 > I do use both (ie currently in message-mode), but can't break the
 > RMAIL habit so I get mail-mode when I do C-u R.

Doesn't RMAIL respect mail-user-agent?

(setq mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent)

-- 
Kevin Rodgers