Re: Rmail and headers in other than US-ASCII (RFC2047 encoded words)

[Miles Bader]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>     I think it was just because I got annoyed at the subtle inconsistencies
>     between the two interfaces (replies in Gnus always used message-mode,
>     presumably because it has various hooks that Gnus needs, whereas the
>     default `compose-mail' interface is mail-mode).
> 
> I think that Gnus should use compose-mail.

Perhaps so, but my impression is that it uses various features that are
only in message-mode, so mail-mode and the generic mail interfaces
would have have to be buffed up quite a bit to make this possible.

One thing Stefan pointed out, BTW, is that message-mode has better mime
support, in particular, it supports mime attachments.  I use these a
_lot_, and my impression is that many other people do as well (mail-mode
supports a sort of ad-hoc attachment function, but it's basically just
`insert-file', and far less useful than real mime attachments).

-Miles
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