Re: gnus-*-mail

["Paul D. Smith" <psmith@BayNetworks.com>]

%% Regarding Re: gnus-*-mail;
%% Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

    lmi> But I should probably get in touch with the mh-e & VM people to
    lmi> see whether a merger might be worked out...

Indeed; I'd love to have vm-mail worked into this.  Note that VM is
frame-aware, though, which GNUS doesn't seem to be so far.  I think
that's important (I'd love to have gnus-post-other-frame, for example).

    >> While you are at it, I can provide a quick hack to allow
    >> completion of addresses on From:, CC:, etc, lines; it gets
    >> completion values from a variety of sources including .mailrc,
    >> /etc/aliases and YP/NIS aliases.

    lmi> That sounds interesting.  There is already a mailalias.el file,
    lmi> but I don't quite know what that one offers...

Please make this kind of thing configurable; our NIS aliases database is
_HUGE_, and I don't want to complete on it in any way.  That's what BBDB
is for!  Now _there's_ a worthwhile package to make sure message.el
works with.

Also, Kyle Jones, Barry Warsaw, and others came up with a set of rules
that Emacs messaging systems should obey, to allow citing engines like
supercite to work.  I don't know how much of that is interesting for
message.el but it should be taken into account.

And finally, I much prefer mailabbrev.el to mailalias.el, so if you're
looking for that kind of thing, there's my vote--plus my mabbrev-menu
package creates a menu bar menu for mailabbrev aliases :)