Re: Sending attachments

[Chong Yidong]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     It's a question of necessary complexity.
>
> I don't think so.  Look at all the libraries message.el loads.
>
> 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.

As has been pointed out, message-mode has more features than mail-mode.
Even if we wanted to bring mail-mode up to par, that would turn it into
something just as complex, or more (since, as you noted, message-mode
already relies on other libraries to much of its functionality).