.mailrc and Gnus

.mailrc and Gnus

[Sten Drescher]

	Is there any way to use the .mailrc _without_ using Abbrevs?
I don't like having them expanded live, but message-mode seems to have
removed the emacs functionality of doing it after sending.  The last
FAQ I saw on the list says nothing about it.

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Re: .mailrc and Gnus

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Sten Drescher <sten.drescher@tivoli.com> writes:

> 	Is there any way to use the .mailrc _without_ using Abbrevs?

I don't think so.

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Re: .mailrc and Gnus

[Per Abrahamsen]

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

>>>>> Sten Drescher <sten.drescher@tivoli.com> writes:

SD> Is there any way to use the .mailrc _without_ using Abbrevs?

LMI> I don't think so.

That is quite frustrating, since it means that I can't send mail to a
friend from Gnus.  The poor soul is stuck with an X.400 address which
is three lines long.  Emacs simply refuses to send mail to that
address directly, but I managed to send mail by defining an alias with
`define-mail-alias' and send mail to that.  This doesn't work anymore
with message.el, since it expands the alias first.

Re: .mailrc and Gnus

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> That is quite frustrating, since it means that I can't send mail to a
> friend from Gnus.  The poor soul is stuck with an X.400 address which
> is three lines long.  Emacs simply refuses to send mail to that
> address directly, but I managed to send mail by defining an alias with
> `define-mail-alias' and send mail to that.

Then this should be fixed.  Why does Emacs refuse to send a mail with
a long To header?  Message just does a `call-process-region' that
feeds the outgoing mail to sendmail.  Does sendmail choke on long To
headers? 

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Re: .mailrc and Gnus

[Per Abrahamsen]

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

LMI> Then this should be fixed.  Why does Emacs refuse to send a mail with
LMI> a long To header?  

Well, I was too fast.  The real problems were:

1) The .mailrc syntax doesn't work with addresses that contains both
   spaces and quotes. 

2) The lisp substitute, `define-mail-alias' was renamed
   `define-mail-abbrev'..

There is one problem though... Whenever I insert the alias it gets
filled automatically, so I have to manually delete the linefeeds
afterwards.