Re: Sending attachments

[Byung-Hee HWANG]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

>    The first step is to check for incompatibilities and missing
>    features in message-mode.  Currently, message-mode recognizes many
>    mail-mode variables, such as `sendmail-program', and do the right
>    thing in response.  Someone needs to go through all the sendmail.el
>    variables and make sure they are all handled properly in
>    message-mode.  Once that is done, we can start to migrate rmail,
>    the bug reporter, and any other places that use mail-mode to
>    message-mode.
>
> That is much  unneeded work, the only thing  that uses message-mode is
> gnus.  It would be much easier to add etach, or similar, to mail-mode,
> and make gnus use mail-mode which is the default mode for sending mail
> in Emacs.

As a user of Gnus, i think mail-mode need to more features. For
example, mail-mode does not support IMAP. Currently, most folks use
Google's Gmail which offers IMAP. Hence, i cannot agree to such an
Alfred's proposal. Again, Gnus will not go with mail-mode unless Gmail's
users respect for mail-mode.

Sincerely,
 
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Byung-Hee HWANG, KNU 
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