mail- and sendmail-user-agent

mail- and sendmail-user-agent

[Mauro Sacchetto]

Is the same thing 
(setq mail-user-agent 'mail-user-agent)
and
(setq mail-user-agent 'sendmail-user-agent)
in .emacs to send e-mail?

Thanx
M

Re: mail- and sendmail-user-agent

[Mauro Sacchetto]

Reiner Steib wrote:
> I think the former is incorrect or at least gives undefined results.
> I'd suggest to use (setq mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent).

Yes, u're right, but my problem is: in some How-To I red
that the syntax to switch from MailMode to Message mode is set:
(setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send.it) <-- MailMode
and
(setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send.it) <-- MessageMode
The last string doesn't work for me, while does work
the following two ones:
(setq mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent)
(require 'smtpmail)
So I don't understand if I forget anything in the first solution
for MessageMode...

Thanx
M.

Re: mail- and sendmail-user-agent

[Mauro Sacchetto]

Reiner Steib wrote:
> smtpmail-send.it is nonsense.  Please refer to the official
> documentation instead of some random how-to on the web.
[cut]
Yes, Only, in the net there are a lot of 
not working how-tos... It seems rather curious.
In any case, thanx!

M.

Re: mail- and sendmail-user-agent

[David Kastrup]

Mauro Sacchetto <mauro.sacchetto@gmail.com> writes:

> Reiner Steib wrote:
>> smtpmail-send.it is nonsense.  Please refer to the official
>> documentation instead of some random how-to on the web.
> [cut]
> Yes, Only, in the net there are a lot of 
> not working how-tos... It seems rather curious.

And a lot of outdated ones.  For people maintaining high-quality
documentation packaged together with their software, this is a constant
source of annoyance.

-- 
David Kastrup