Re: Sending attachments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:47:32 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> As has been pointed out, message-mode has more features than mail-mode.

Yes.  And Gnus has much more features than Rmail.  So what?  We all do
agree that much more features means more complexity in setting things
up.  Why impose that on people who are happy with simple modes?

> Even if we wanted to bring mail-mode up to par

No one suggested that.

> 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).

Encoding a file uses only core Emacs features (base64-encode-region),
so no libraries should be involved.