sending messages outside Gnus

[Sebastian Luque <spluque@gmail.com>]

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I'm resending the message below as it hasn't been posted after 24 h.



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Hi,

I have mail-user-agent set to gnus-user-agent, but doing 'C-x m' before
starting Gnus (No Gnus v0.4) gives:

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| Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function gnus-agent-possibly-save-gcc)
|   gnus-agent-possibly-save-gcc()
|   run-hooks(message-header-hook)
|   message-send-mail(nil)
|   message-send-via-mail(nil)
|   message-send(nil)
|   message-send-and-exit(nil)
|   call-interactively(message-send-and-exit)
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although no problems occur if Gnus is running or was started once in the
session.

The issue came up in the past, and the best solution I found was:

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but this uses gnus-no-server, which obviously starts Gnus.  Is there a
more efficient way to accomplish sending mails outside of Gnus, such that
a) a copy of the message is sent to myself¹, or b) a Gcc header is used,
causing the message to be stored in gnus-message-archive-group?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

Sebastian


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¹ Using e.g. Bcc, being careful to add my address if such a header already
exists with some entries, or the header is added with my address in it.

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Sebastian P. Luque