Re: Sending attachments

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Anything more complex than that is really going to resemble existing
> code in mml and elsewhere, and is not worth another from-scratch
> effort, IMO.
>   

Even the simple case involves a lot of code in the background to encode 
and provide the correct headers, so it is not worth another from-scratch 
effort. My suggestion was intended to be about putting a simple 
interface in front of mml, since the main objection to using that for 
mail-mode seems to be that the interface is too complex, and if we can 
overcome that, we can avoid adding yet another mime library into Emacs.

The other things to address are hiding the mml code it inserts (I'd 
suggest a file icon image for graphical displays, or buttonized 
[Attached File] for text mode, but RMS has expressed a preference for 
seeing the actual base64 or quoted-printable content that would be sent, 
so another option is to immediately call the function that transforms 
mml to actual mime instead of calling it in the send hook).