From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52524 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus Agent and mail Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 18:20:26 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <6uiswfhrqs.fsf@zork.zork.net> <8465phob8k.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <87d6jk1flj.fsf@cam.ac.uk> <87llxhm2ol.fsf@cam.ac.uk> <87fznmhjih.fsf@cam.ac.uk> <87k7cytpco.fsf@cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052695164 14093 80.91.224.249 (11 May 2003 23:19:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 23:19:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1068@lists.math.uh.edu Mon May 12 01:19:23 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19F06F-0003fB-00 for ; Mon, 12 May 2003 01:19:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19F07Z-0007aE-00; Sun, 11 May 2003 18:20:45 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19F07R-0007a8-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 11 May 2003 18:20:37 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 12788 invoked by alias); 11 May 2003 23:20:37 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12783 invoked from network); 11 May 2003 23:20:37 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 11 May 2003 23:20:37 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19F0C1-0007KR-00 for ; Mon, 12 May 2003 01:25:21 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.12.206.92 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1052695521 28174 216.12.206.92 (11 May 2003 23:25:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 May 2003 23:25:21 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oyb9aquG13RrDZtsIWTtawq5U6E= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52524 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52524 Gaute B Strokkenes writes: > On 10 mai 2003, gs234@cam.ac.uk wrote: >>On 10 mai 2003, kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com wrote: >>>BTW, I'm actually convincing myself that gnus-agent-queue-mail is >>>the reasonable thing to do. >> >>Well, I'm having a stab at implementing it now... > > And here it is. > > 2003-05-10 Gaute B Strokkenes > > * gnus-agent.el (gnus-agent-queue-mail): New variable. > (gnus-agent-send-mail): Use it. This part seems fine. > * gnus-draft.el (gnus-group-send-queue): Bind > message-send-mail-real-function to the value of > gnus-agent-send-mail-function when sending queued mail. I don't like the idea of messing with message-send-mail-real-function. What happens to someone who is not using the agent (i.e. gnus-agent-send-mail-function is nil)? What issue are you trying to resolve by adding this binding? > If you find this approach at all acceptable, I will start work on the > documentation. > > AFAICT there is only one change in behaviour when using the default > configuration: if you hit J S in the Group buffer when unplugged, Gnus > will actually try to send any queued email rather than just rewriting > them to the queue folder. This is arguably an improvement; if not it > is probably better to have a "are you sure" nag message anyway. We will have to wait until the code is checked in to see what is arguable. I've learned that some people find any behavior changes to be objectable. Kevin