Re: Gnus Agent and mail

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk>]

On 12 mai 2003, kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com wrote:
>Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>>	* gnus-draft.el (gnus-group-send-queue): Bind
>>	message-send-mail-real-function to the value of
>>	gnus-agent-send-mail-function when sending queued mail.
>
>I don't like the idea of messing with
>message-send-mail-real-function. What happens to someone who is not
>using the agent (i.e. gnus-agent-send-mail-function is nil)?

The sole purpose of that function is to send queued mail (it is the
one that `J S' in the group buffer is bound to.)  So if you're not
using the agent, you're not using this function.

>What issue are you trying to resolve by adding this binding?

Mail is sent by this function pretty much like any other mail.
Therefore, before my patch it would be rewritten back to the queue
folder if gnus were unplugged.  (Some people might like to be
protected from hitting `J S' by mistake while unplugged, by I think
it's a misfeature.  But I digress.)  With my patch, if
gnus-agent-queue-mail is set to always, mail would always be rewritten
to the queue folder if this hunk were not present.  Then there would
be no way to send mail without temporarily setting
gnus-agent-queue-mail to t or nil.

Hmm.  Actually, is is possible to enter the queue group and send
messages with `D s' and `D S'.  I need to take care of those cases as
well.

>We will have to wait until the code is checked in to see what is
>arguable.  I've learned that some people find any behavior changes to
>be objectable.

Well, life is not supposed to be easy ;-)

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Gaute Strokkenes                        http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~gs234/
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