Re: Sending attachments

[Richard Stallman]

    > I object strenuously to the idea of replacing the very simple Mail
    > mode with something complex from Gnus.

    It's a question of necessary complexity.

I don't think so.  Look at all the libraries message.el loads.


    (require 'hashcash)
    (require 'canlock)
    (require 'mailheader)
    (require 'gmm-utils)
    (require 'nnheader)

      That loads
        (require 'mail-utils)
        (require 'mm-util)
        (require 'gnus-util)

    ;; This is apparently necessary even though things are autoloaded.
    ;; Because we dynamically bind mail-abbrev-mode-regexp, we'd better
    ;; require mailabbrev here.
    (if (featurep 'xemacs)
        (require 'mail-abbrevs)
      (require 'mailabbrev))
    (require 'mail-parse)
    (require 'mml)
    (require 'rfc822)
    (require 'ecomplete)

I don't want to replace the simple sendmail.el with this tremendous
pile of complexity.

message.el is also 8000 lines long, where sendmail.el is under 2000
lines.  I expect that sending attachments won't require more than 200
lines.