From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sending attachments Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:54:35 +0100 Organization: University of Cambridge Message-ID: References: <87k52rzyn1.fsf@benthic.rattlesnake.com> <873a9fw6dt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87y6r7yp1y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877hyp3by2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <874otsh49x.fsf@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246722943 25876 80.91.229.12 (4 Jul 2009 15:55:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:55:43 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 04 17:55:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MN7aQ-0001vX-NU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:55:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38744 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MN7aQ-00010y-0P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:55:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MN7Zl-0000vc-4x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:54:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MN7Zg-0000qO-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:54:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=32884 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MN7Zg-0000qD-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:54:48 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:39056 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MN7Zf-0005nb-Lz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:54:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MN7Zd-0008JY-FJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:54:45 +0000 Original-Received: from smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.95.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:54:45 +0000 Original-Received: from sdl.web by smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:54:45 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:w1i7Am1kP4myDaeOMiBh9N6gZVo= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112015 Archived-At: On 2009-07-04 16:11 +0100, Teemu Likonen wrote: > I have an idea: Let's have two different modes, a simple mode called > mail-mode and a complex mode named message-mode which has more > features. People who like simplicity can use mail-mode and people who > need more features can use message-mode. How does that sound? :-) There are already a few variants. ,----[ C-h v mail-user-agent RET ] | `sendmail-user-agent' -- use the default Emacs Mail package. | See Info node `(emacs)Sending Mail'. | `mh-e-user-agent' -- use the Emacs interface to the MH mail system. | See Info node `(mh-e)'. | `message-user-agent' -- use the Gnus Message package. | See Info node `(message)'. | `gnus-user-agent' -- like `message-user-agent', but with Gnus | paraphernalia, particularly the Gcc: header for | archiving. `---- I'd prefer the core functionality of both sendmail and message-mode be merged into a library that offers a default send mail interface and also a basis for all other MUAs like gnus, mh-e etc. if they need extra stuff than the default. -- Leo's Emacs uptime: 24 days, 2 hours, 2 minutes, 12 seconds