On 10 mai 2003, gs234@cam.ac.uk wrote:
>On 10 mai 2003, kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com wrote:
>>BTW, I'm actually convincing myself that gnus-agent-queue-mail is
>>the reasonable thing to do.
>
>Well, I'm having a stab at implementing it now...

And here it is.

2003-05-10  Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@srcf.ucam.org>

	* gnus-agent.el (gnus-agent-queue-mail): New variable.
	(gnus-agent-send-mail): Use it.

	* 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.

If you find this approach at all acceptable, I will start work on the
documentation.

AFAICT there is only one change in behaviour when using the default
configuration: if you hit J S in the Group buffer when unplugged, Gnus
will actually try to send any queued email rather than just rewriting
them to the queue folder.  This is arguably an improvement; if not it
is probably better to have a "are you sure" nag message anyway.