Re: DSN [PATCH]

[Joseph Barillari <jbarilla@princeton.edu>]

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>>>>> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
    >> What is the relationship between message.el and sendmail.el? I
    >> patched message.el because I thought that program dispatched
    >> the messages to the MTA. Can Gnus be configured to have
    >> sendmail.el perform this function? --Joe

    SJ> Message uses sendmail, smtpmail, feedmail, qmail etc to send
    SJ> mail.  Message could have key bindings that binds the
    SJ> mail-use-dsn to something within the current buffer.  OTOH I
    SJ> think it is rather unclean as it only applies to one method
    SJ> for sending mail.  So maybe it is better to only have the
    SJ> sendmail.el variable?  And use M-x set-variable.  Or using
    SJ> posting styles.  Or hooks.  Sendmail.el could provide
    SJ> functions for setting the variable, but it is such a simple
    SJ> function so maybe the variable is sufficient.

I take it that Gnus replicates the functions of sendmail.el in
messsage.el. That being so, shouldn't this patch be applied to
message.el? Gnus uses `message-send-mail-with-sendmail' in message.el,
rather than `sendmail-send-it' in sendmail.el to actually dispatch the
messages, right?

--Joe

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