Re: message-send-mail-function, agent, and a day of work

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> writes:

>>>>>> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:28:28 -0500, Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> said:
>
> Kevin> If you are truely changing your code to set
> Kevin> gnus-agent-send-mail-function then you going down the wrong
> Kevin> path.  Your code will now break for those users who have turned
> Kevin> the agent off as gnus-agent-send-mail-function will never be
> Kevin> called.
>
> Sorry, I miss-led you.  Thats only in my .gnus file.  I haven't
> touched real gnus code yet at this point.
>
> Kevin> I'm going to assume that the mail in queue should be dispatched to
> Kevin> multiple smtp servers so that being offline is transparent to the
> Kevin> actual delivery.  If that is the case, I believe that you'll need to
> Kevin> have the first message-send-hook put the selected smtp server into the
> Kevin> message as a header.  The second message-send-hook could then decode,
> Kevin> and remove, the custom header.
>
> I actually was using a custom header at one point, but just reverted
> to checking the From: header which is really all I care about matching
> on.

I just checked in a patch to gnus-agent that will, if it works is
intended, let you change message-send-mail-function.

I'll also take a look at updating the manual.

Kevin