Re: gnus-mh.el

[Erik Selberg <selberg@cs.washington.edu>]

> Well, I was thinking about the functions in `gnus-mh' --
> `gnus-mh-mail-setup' and stuff.  Many people seem to prefer using the
> mh mail mode for composing/sending mail to using the standard sendmail
> mail mode.  The problem is that the Gnus window configuration thingie
> and the draft buffer stuff do not currently interact well with mh-e,
> which also fiddles with the window configuration and creates its own
> draft group.

I'm one of the chief culprits (and probably chief gripe... :). I think
the mh-e composing and sending is much better than standard mail,
although some things that ding has done recently have made standard
mail closer. The things I use from mh-e to compose / send are:

+ Better alias support (it's easy to have files containing names; the
  mail system we have here won't allow that)

+ Checking of recipients (you can ensure you typed in the right alias)

+ drafts folder so you can compose multiple messages at once (although
  I guess ding has that now as well)

What I think would be a great solution (well, maybe...:) would be to
create a totally new mail / post mechanism, overriding both mh-e,
mail, and post-news stuff. This way, we can do things right, and make
the interface much cleaner. For example, I'd love a mode where I can
just add To: and Newsgroups: header and have everything go into the
right place. Or stick newsgroup names in the To: field and have that
work too! An auto-aliasing thing like what pine has would also be nice.

> So I was wondering if somebody could (please!) volunteer to clean that
> stuff up somewhat.

ok, since I'm chief gripe, I'll see what I can do.

-Erik