Re: Email address handling

[Mike Fabian <mike.fabian@gmx.de>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Mike Fabian <mike.fabian@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > But I have always wondered why `Gcc: nnml+archive:archive' isn't
> > inserted automatically when I click on such a header. Most other
> > commands to send mail insert the `Gcc:' header automatically.
> 
> Maybe hitting RET on a mailto URL invokes message-mail rather than
> gnus-mail?  Message can in principle be used without Gnus, and when
> you do that you don't get the normal Gnus features, of course.
> 
> Somebody has written some code such that you can set mail-user-agent
> to some value which uses gnus-mail rather than message-mail in such
> cases.  You may wish to search the Gnus and BBDB mailing list archives
> for define-mail-user-agent.

Thank you, I found a message in the archive explaining how to do this: 

    From: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
    Subject: Success?  Potential gnus-user-agent definition.
    Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
    Date: 17 Jun 1999 00:00:00 GMT

In this message Rob writes that define-mail-user-agent doesn't help
with bbdb:

RB> Note that it doesn't help with bbdb, but after further
RB> investigation, I discovered that that's because the version of
RB> bbdb doesn't use compose-mail, but the docs claim it will.  When
RB> it does, everything will work fine.

For the same reason it doesn't work when starting a mail by clicking
on a email-address in the headers of an *Article* buffer.
`compose-mail' is not used in this case either (I checked by
instrumenting `compose-mail' for Edebug and see whether it stops
there. It doesn't.)

Maybe this is an oversight and `compose-mail' should be used in this
case?

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Mike Fabian   <mike.fabian@gmx.de>   <mike@nozomi.rhein-neckar.de>